WLS 12.1.3 XML Parsing Error (java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The Char '0x0' after '' Is Not a Valid XML Character) When Using Apache Axis Based WebService Which Is Caused by Additional Padding in JDBC (Doc ID 2162164.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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Symptoms

You have deployed an Axis 1.4 WebService to your WLS 12.1.3 domain. The SOAP payload is in the DB and is retrieved during a client call. On WLS 12.1.3 Linux environment, the SOAP payload while retrieving from DB has a lot of padding.  While running an Apache Axis based WebService there are some messages that will produce the following error (when pulling them out/trying to read them) i.e. This is causing the SOAP request to fail with the following error:

This is the correct format of SOAP payload that need to be pulled from the DB.

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