java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException at $Proxy0.authenticateApplication(Unknown Source) at authentisoft.security.integration.service.soap.client.GenericClient.authenticate(GenericClient.java:217) at authentisoft.security.integration.service.soap.client.GenericClient.getApplicationToken(GenericClient.java:200) at authentisoft.security.integration.service.soap.client.SecurityServerClient.isValidToken(SecurityServerClient.java:44) This exception is thrown when unable to bind to the SOAP service specified when greating an XFire client with the following code: return (SecurityServer) factory.create(service, securityServerURL + "SecurityServer"); Shouldn't the create test the service exist? Currently the create has the exception, java.net.MalformedURLException.