(request)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/services/checkVatService HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Content-Length: 777
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: ""

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tns1="urn:ec.europa.eu:taxud:vies:services:checkVat:types" xmlns:impl="urn:ec.europa.eu:taxud:vies:services:checkVat" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><tns1:checkVat><countryCode xsi:type="xsd:string">SE</countryCode><vatNumber xsi:type="xsd:string">12345678</vatNumber></tns1:checkVat></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 13:48:47 GMT
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 13:48:51 GMT
Client-Peer: 147.67.119.3:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked

(response)
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault><faultcode>soapenv:Server</faultcode><faultstring>unknown</faultstring><detail><Exception>org.apache.axis2.AxisFault
	at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:430)
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.api.CheckVatServiceMessageReceiverInOut.invokeBusinessLogic(CheckVatServiceMessageReceiverInOut.java:83)
	at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.java:40)
	at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractMessageReceiver.receive(AbstractMessageReceiver.java:100)
	at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:176)
	at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPTransportUtils.processHTTPPostRequest(HTTPTransportUtils.java:275)
	at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:133)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.web.servlet.Axis2FilterServlet.service(Axis2FilterServlet.java:49)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1072)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.api.CheckVatServiceHTTPFilter.doFilter(CheckVatServiceHTTPFilter.java:172)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.util.EncodingFilter.doFilter(EncodingFilter.java:26)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6987)
	at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
	at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3892)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2766)
	at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:224)
	at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:183)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.api.ViesWebApi.checkVatRequest(ViesWebApi.java:39)
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.api.CheckVatServiceSkeleton.checkVat(CheckVatServiceSkeleton.java:42)
	at cec.taxud.fiscalis.vies.viesweb.api.CheckVatServiceMessageReceiverInOut.invokeBusinessLogic(CheckVatServiceMessageReceiverInOut.java:48)
	... 23 more
</Exception></detail></soapenv:Fault></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>