I moved a working code from dev to test and encountered the following error(s) in test:

javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: Could not send Message. at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:143) ...... at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:64) at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:236) at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:472) at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:302) at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:254) at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.invokeSync(ClientProxy.java:73) at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:123) at $Proxy739.copyIntoItems(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http:///_vti_bin/Copy.asmx at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1436) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:379) at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleResponseInternal(HTTPConduit.java:2046)

Environment specs:

Java 1.6 Tomcat 6 Eclipse Helios Maven2 CXF 2.2.3

As a background work, tried to explore about the error in similar category

1. bad URL (ruled out as i am using same URL in dev and test. and the url, userid, password are all accessible from both the machines),
2. connection timeout( error is not 404 or it doesnt specify connection timed out... it says 401 response code for url)
3. Checked if all the jars and same versions are included in the test environment.

Can someone shed some light to understand and resolve the error?

please let me know if any more details are to be included.