Installing Axis 1.2.1 on Windows

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This section describes a tutorial on how to install Axis 1.2.1 on a Windows system.

Before installing Axis, you should look at your current JDK and Tomcat installations. Here is what I have on my system:

Name     Version   Location

JDK      1.5.0     \jdk
Tomcat   5.5       \tomcat

If you are ready, repeat the following steps to install Axis on your system.

1. Go to http://ws.apache.org/axis/releases.html, and select version 1.2.1.

2. Go to the suggested mirror site, and download axis-bin-1_2_1.tar.gz.

3. Unzip axis-bin-1_2_1.tar.gz, move the resulting subdirectory .\axis-1_2_1 to \axis.

4. Copy \axis\webapps\axis directory to \tomcat\webapps\axis.

5. Re-start Tomcat with a command window:

cd \tomcat\bin
set JAVA_HOME=\jdk
startup

You should get something like this in a separate window:

(Date) 9:47:16 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
(Date) 9:47:17 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 5407 ms
(Date) 9:47:17 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
(Date) 9:47:17 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.7
...

6. Run Internet Explorer (IE) with url: http://localhost:8080/axis/happyaxis.jsp. You should get something like this in the browser:

Axis Happiness Page

Examining webapp configuration

Needed Components
   Found SAAJ API ... \tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\saaj.jar
   Found JAX-RPC API ... \tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\jaxrpc.jar
   Found Apache-Axis ... \tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\axis.jar
   Found Jakarta-Commons Discovery ... \tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF
      \lib\commons-discovery-0.2.jar
   Found Jakarta-Commons Logging ... \tomcat\bin
      \commons-logging-api.jar
   Found Log4j ... \tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar
   Found IBM's WSDL4Java ... \tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF
      \lib\wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
   Found JAXP implementation ... an unknown location

   Error: could not find class javax.activation.DataHandler from 
      file activation.jar
   Axis will not work. 
   See http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html

   Optional Components
   Warning: could not find class javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage 
      from file mail.jar
   Attachments will not work. 
   See http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/

   Warning: could not find class org.apache.xml.security.Init 
      from file xmlsec.jar
   XML Security is not supported. 
   See http://xml.apache.org/security/
...

Wow. This is really a nice installation report. I can ignore the two warnings. But I have to fix the error. Continue with the next section.

Sections in This Chapter

SOAP Java Implementations: Axis and Apache WebService

Axis Installation Requirements on Windows

Installing Axis 1.2.1 on Windows

Installing JAF 1.0.2