I have a test plan with a WebService request. The Name, WSDL URL, Server name, port number and path field are correctly filled, SOAPAction is not required as this is an axis java web service. I forgot to enter the soap/xml-rpc data in the text box, and if I select run I get this error in jmeter.log 2005/09/05 14:58:57 ERROR - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.WebServiceSampler.createDocument(WebServiceSampler.java:374) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.WebServiceSampler.sample(WebServiceSampler.java:444) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:503) at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:247) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Perhaps the line should do some error checking and write a more detailed error to jmeter.log
btw, this is Jmeter 2.1 on java version "1.5.0_03", SUSE 9.3 I have both mail.jar and activation.jar
Applied a fix to 2.1 branch
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/1595