Getting "java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL" error during JSF/AJAX example

I'm trying to run the JSF/AJAX example by Tor Norbye (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tor/20050709).  Here is what I've done.

- downloaded and installed the AJAX Textfield component (http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/ea/jsc2/reference/samplecomps/ajax-components-0.96.complib.zip)
and installed it into Java Studio Creator EA2 standard tools

- downloaded his web service project file (http://mediacast.sun.com/details.jsp?id=190)

- downloaded and installed NetBeans 4.1 IDE

- opened, compiled and deployed the web service project via NetBeans 4.1 IDE

- added the web service to JSC EA2

- the web service two methods 'define' and 'matchPrefix' work when tested through JSC's build in test interface

The application does not work.  The NetBean's localhost:24848 output window shows the error at the bottom of this post.

When I look at the generated WSDL is JSC it shows this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><definitions xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:tns="urn:DictionaryService/wsdl" xmlns:ns2="urn:DictionaryService/types" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" name="DictionaryService" targetNamespace="urn:DictionaryService/wsdl">
  <types>
    <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:tns="urn:DictionaryService/types" xmlns:soap11-enc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" targetNamespace="urn:DictionaryService/types">
      <complexType name="define">
        <sequence>
          <element name="String_1" type="string" nillable="true"/></sequence></complexType>
      <complexType name="defineResponse">
        <sequence>
          <element name="result" type="string" nillable="true"/></sequence></complexType>
      <complexType name="matchPrefix">
        <sequence>
          <element name="String_1" type="string" nillable="true"/></sequence></complexType>
      <complexType name="matchPrefixResponse">
        <sequence>
          <element name="result" type="string" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/></sequence></complexType>
      <element name="define" type="tns:define"/>
      <element name="defineResponse" type="tns:defineResponse"/>
      <element name="matchPrefix" type="tns:matchPrefix"/>
      <element name="matchPrefixResponse" type="tns:matchPrefixResponse"/></schema></types>
  <message name="DictionaryServiceSEI_define">
    <part name="parameters" element="ns2:define"/></message>
  <message name="DictionaryServiceSEI_defineResponse">
    <part name="result" element="ns2:defineResponse"/></message>
  <message name="DictionaryServiceSEI_matchPrefix">
    <part name="parameters" element="ns2:matchPrefix"/></message>
  <message name="DictionaryServiceSEI_matchPrefixResponse">
    <part name="result" element="ns2:matchPrefixResponse"/></message>
  <portType name="DictionaryServiceSEI">
    <operation name="define">
      <input message="tns:DictionaryServiceSEI_define"/>
      <output message="tns:DictionaryServiceSEI_defineResponse"/></operation>
    <operation name="matchPrefix">
      <input message="tns:DictionaryServiceSEI_matchPrefix"/>
      <output message="tns:DictionaryServiceSEI_matchPrefixResponse"/></operation></portType>
  <binding name="DictionaryServiceSEIBinding" type="tns:DictionaryServiceSEI">
    <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" style="document"/>
    <operation name="define">
      <soap:operation soapAction=""/>
      <input>
        <soap:body use="literal"/></input>
      <output>
        <soap:body use="literal"/></output></operation>
    <operation name="matchPrefix">
      <soap:operation soapAction=""/>
      <input>
        <soap:body use="literal"/></input>
      <output>
        <soap:body use="literal"/></output></operation></binding>
  <service name="DictionaryService">
    <port name="DictionaryServiceSEIPort" binding="tns:DictionaryServiceSEIBinding">
      <soap:address location="http://gpintarxplt.hrbinc.hrblock.net:28080/DictionaryService/DictionaryService" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"/></port></service></definitions>

That all looks ok to me.

Here is the error message I see displayed in NetBeans output window:

...
[#|2005-08-30T09:25:53.980-0500|WARNING|sun-appserver-pe8.1_02|com.sun.faces.el.impl.Coercions|_ThreadID=19;|Attempt to apply operator "-" to null value|#]
[#|2005-08-30T09:25:54.030-0500|SEVERE|sun-appserver-pe8.1_02|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=19;|WebModule[/ajax-auto-complete-w-web-service-1a]Error Description
java.rmi.RemoteException: HTTP transport error: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL; nested exception is:
        HTTP transport error: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL
        at webservice.dictionaryservice.DictionaryServiceSEI_Stub.matchPrefix(DictionaryServiceSEI_Stub.java:134)
        at webservice.dictionaryservice.dictionaryservice.DictionaryServiceClient.matchPrefix(DictionaryServiceClient.java:36)
        at ajaxautocompletewwebservice1a.Page1.ajaxTextField1_complete(Page1.java:207)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at com.sun.faces.el.MethodBindingImpl.invoke(MethodBindingImpl.java:126)
        at com.sun.j2ee.blueprints.bpcatalog.ajax.components.AjaxPhaseListener.getCompletionItems(AjaxPhaseListener.java:137)
        at com.sun.j2ee.blueprints.bpcatalog.ajax.components.AjaxPhaseListener.handleAjaxRequest(AjaxPhaseListener.java:86)
        at com.sun.j2ee.blueprints.bpcatalog.ajax.components.AjaxPhaseListener.afterPhase(AjaxPhaseListener.java:57)
        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:235)
        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:90)
        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:197)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor155.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:249)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:500)
        at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:282)
        at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:165)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:257)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:55)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:161)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
        at com.sun.web.ui.util.UploadFilter.doFilter(UploadFilter.java:179)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:55)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:161)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:263)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:225)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:173)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:161)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:132)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:551)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:933)
        at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:185)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:653)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:534)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.doTask(ProcessorTask.java:403)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:55)
Caused by: HTTP transport error: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL
        at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.http.HttpClientTransport.invoke(HttpClientTransport.java:140)
        at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.StreamingSender._send(StreamingSender.java:92)
        at webservice.dictionaryservice.DictionaryServiceSEI_Stub.matchPrefix(DictionaryServiceSEI_Stub.java:118)
        ... 47 more

The "REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL" in the error message above makes me think I've missed something along the way.

Does anyone have an idea as to what I'm missing here?  Has anyone successfully completed this JSF/AJAX example?

Thanks.


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