Error 500 launching the Web Service Explorer with Eclipse

Question

I created my first web service and all seems to run ok, but when I launch the Web Service Explorer, it returns a HTTP ERROR: 500.

I'm using the version Luna Service Release 1 (4.4.1) of Eclipse, Tomcat 8.0.14, Axis2 1.6.2 and JRE 1.8.0_25. I read that it's solved changing the version to jre7, but i didn't work.

[Edited] What I was doing is this tutorial. The problem comes when I tried the second part. Instead of appears the Web Services Explorer I get the 500 Error.

Thanks for your help! :D

Answer 1

Try changing JAVA_HOME and path to 1.7 JDK instead of 1.8. The problem is due to java 8 which doesn't seem to be compatible with luna as of now.

Answer 2

I had this same issue with Eclipse kepler when launching the Web Services Explorer-- I had jdk1.8 installed. Tried changing the JAVA_HOME (path points to %JAVA_HOME%) to point to jdk1.7 and still got the same issue.

After some research I decided to go with uninstalling jdk1.8 and this worked (somehow).

Totally a work around and not a solution; This got the Web Services Explorer to work for me.