Alfresco SDK code hanging at AuthenticationUtils.startSession - sdk

Question

i am testing the code from SDK to call Alfresco on bitNami Alresco 4.0.e-0 server with a webapp that is located on same tomcat server as Alfresco. The code hangs at the very first call to AuthenticationUtils to get session. I pretty am sure i supplied the standard bitNami Alfresco user and password for this. Did i miss any libraries? I put most available dependencies as my local maven repositories and code compiles well.
the following is code from SDK without Alfresco license as i could not format the code with it:
package org.alfresco.sample.webservice;
import org.alfresco.webservice.repository.RepositoryServiceSoapBindingStub;
import org.alfresco.webservice.types.Store;
import org.alfresco.webservice.util.AuthenticationUtils;
import org.alfresco.webservice.util.WebServiceFactory;
public class GetStores extends SamplesBase
{
/**
* Connect to the respository and print out the names of the available
*
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
throws Exception
{
// Start the session
AuthenticationUtils.startSession(USERNAME, PASSWORD);
try
{
// Get the respoitory service
RepositoryServiceSoapBindingStub repositoryService = WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService();
// Get array of stores available in the repository
Store[] stores = repositoryService.getStores();
if (stores == null)
{
// NOTE: empty array are returned as a null object, this is a issue with the generated web service code.
System.out.println("There are no stores avilable in the repository.");
}
else
{
// Output the names of all the stores available in the repository
System.out.println("The following stores are available in the repository:");
for (Store store : stores)
{
System.out.println(store.getScheme() + "://" + store.getAddress());
}
}
}
finally
{
// End the session
AuthenticationUtils.endSession();
}
}
}

Answer 1

The WebServiceFactory uses
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api
as default endpoint.You can change the endpoint by providing a file called webserviceclient.properties on the classpath under alfresco (the resource path: alfresco/webserviceclient.properties)
The properties file must offer a property called repository.location, which specifies the endpoint URL. Since you are using a bitnami Alfresco instance, it is probably running on port 80. The file should contain the following property entry:
repository.location=http://localhost:80/alfresco/api