Cannot dispatch a web service

Hi,

I'm a beginner with Web Services and I'm just trying out this WSO2 WSAS so bear with me. I tried to do the tutorial but I wasn't able to publish (or dispatch or what ever it is called) the web service.

First, I had a lot of trouble with the WSAS as I couldn't get anything to work. I finally re-installed eclipse and the needed plug-ins which helped a little (also installed the patches mentioned in the another post which also helped as I also got the same error as described there).

One thing I had trouble with was that you cannot (?) create a new project if you change the Project contents folder from default (I got "Failed while installing WSAS Web Service Core 1.1. java.lang.NullPointerException" when changing the location from C:\Documents and Settings\username\workspace\new_project to D:\Projects\new_project). When I used the default path the project was created successfully... (not a big problem hopefully).

But the big problem is that when I try to create a web service from an existing class, I get:

Socket error caused by remote host xxx.xxx.xxx.xx

java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed

etc.

Because of this I cannot see the newly created web service in the services list (so it isn't published and I cannot use it?).

Can anyone help me and tell me how I can fix this problem? Or tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you!

- Mika