Sync SOAP TO JDBC--SOAP response throws error

Hi All

I am following the below weblog

SYNCHRONOUS SOAP TO JDBC - END TO END WALKTHROUGH

but my SOAP client response throws the following error

<?xml version='1.0'?>

<SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>

<SOAP:Body>

<SOAP:Fault>

<faultcode>SOAP:Server</faultcode>

<faultstring>Server Error</faultstring>

<s:SystemError xmlns:s='http://sap.com/xi/WebService/xi2.0'>

<context>XIAdapter</context>

<code>MalformedMessageException</code>

<text><![CDATA[

java.lang.NullPointerException; nested exception caused by:

com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.NestedSAXParserException: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XML Declaration not allowed here.(:main:, row:2, col:6)(:main:, row=2, col=6) -> com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XML Declaration not allowed here.(:main:, row:2, col:6)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanPI(XMLParser.java:2126)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanProlog(XMLParser.java:2774)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanDocument(XMLParser.java:2830)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.parse0(XMLParser.java:229)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.AbstractXMLParser.parseAndCatchException(AbstractXMLParser.java:145)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.AbstractXMLParser.parse(AbstractXMLParser.java:160)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.AbstractXMLParser.parse(AbstractXMLParser.java:261)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.Parser.parseWithoutSchemaValidationProcessing(Parser.java:280)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:342)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:125)

at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)

at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:143)

at com.sap.aii.messaging.util.StreamXMLScannerImpl$EventProducer.run(StreamXMLScannerImpl.java:593)

at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:144)

at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)

at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:143)

at com.sap.aii.messaging.util.StreamXMLScannerImpl$EventProducer.run(StreamXMLScannerImpl.java:593)

Caused by: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XML Declaration not allowed here.(:main:, row:2, col:6)