OGSA-DAI WSI-specific FAQ

The following questions and answers deal with frequent problems in installing or using OGSA-DAI WSI. If you have any others that you feel should be added to this list then please let us know.

You may also want to consult the General FAQ and Known Problems pages.

General

Why do I get "Unable to find required classes (javax.activation.DataHandler and javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart). Attachment support is disabled." when running the OGSA-DAI clients?

This is a warning message that can safely be ignored. It is displayed when Axis has been deployed without an optional JAR. An optional JAR is one that allows Axis to support a particular piece of functionalty but is not required for general use. Please refer to the Axis documentation for more details.

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Does OGSA-DAI WSI Provide Registry Services?

OGSA-DAI WSI does not provide any specific registry services. However, if you have deployed OGSA-DAI WSI onto OMII 2.0/2.1 you could check out the OMII Grimoires project at http://www.omii.ac.uk/mp/mp_grimoires.jsp.

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Strange URLs from the Server

If you submit a request to an OGSA-DAI service via the client toolkit you might get a response as follows:

Cannot contact service
http://localhost:8080/axis/services/ogsadai/DataService/DAIJDBCResource

This may naturally cause you concern if you thought you were contacting the service:

http://localhost:8080/axis/services/ogsadai/DataService

OGSA-DAI WSI requires that the ID of data service resource exposed by a data service be appended onto the service URL. This is handled by our client toolkit and the form of the data service resource ID is as follows:

/DAIResourceID

It does not mean that the client toolkit is malfunctioning. All it means is that the service:

http://localhost:8080/axis/services/ogsadai/DataService

could not be contacted.

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What do I need in my CLASSPATH to be able to run OGSA-DAI clients or compile OGSA-DAI client examples?

You need to have the following in your CLASSPATH:

In addition you may also need the following:

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