I am much closer. Tomcat is putting some key messages in the console and I overlooked them. It looks like I am closer than I thought. The request looks like its getting received, but my service blows up on response due to I think two class not found issues. But, I can't tell what classes are missing.
[Flex]Deserializing AMF/RTMP request
Version: 3 null
2.0
(Command method=null (0) trxId=2.0)
null
(Externalizable Object #0 'flex.data.messages.DataMessageExt')
(Array #1)
[0] = (Typed Object #2 'flex.data.messages.DataMessage')
identity = (Object #3)
partId = 81959
operation = 11
correlationId = "419F99AA-B649-9490-650D-88F3CAADBCB7"
headers = (Object #4)
messageId = "8AF6C660-9DE3-F155-6A91-88F3CAC5A4F0"
timestamp = 0
destination = "DocumentPart"
timeToLive = 0
body = (Typed Object #5 'com.hpdocs.ds.document.DocumentPart')
documentId = 81960
partId = 81959
content = "Hello World"
clientId = "05E549ED-455F-A9AF-EEDE-88F3CA7E4BF9"
"DocumentPart"
(Object #6)
DSEndpoint = "hp_rtmp"
DSId = "F65B351A-A60C-6F91-2932-44630DAED2B9"
(Byte Array #7, Length 16) ""
7
[Flex]Received command: TCCommand [ Cmd: 0, MethodName: null, TrxID: 2.0]
[Flex]Serializing AMF/RTMP response
Version: 3
(Command method=_error (0) trxId=2.0)
(Typed Object #0 'flex.messaging.messages.ErrorMessage')
headers = (Object #1)
rootCause = (Typed Object #2 'java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError')
message = "javax/transaction/SystemException"
localizedMessage = "javax/transaction/SystemException"
cause = (Typed Object #3 'java.lang.ClassNotFoundException')
message = "javax.transaction.SystemException"
localizedMessage = "javax.transaction.SystemException"
cause = null
exception = null
body = null
correlationId = "419F99AA-B649-9490-650D-88F3CAADBCB7"
faultDetail = null
faultString = "There was an unhandled failure on the server. javax/transaction/SystemException"
clientId = "F65B3649-620E-C827-50C4-6A1C78BC3712"
timeToLive = 0.0
destination = "DocumentPart"
timestamp = 1.273607998612E12
extendedData = null
faultCode = "Server.Processing"
messageId = "F65B3675-5409-795E-747F-B2F459749415"