Re: [Axis 2] Problem embedding Axis2 into existing web application

HTH http://ssagara.blogspot.com/2012/02/axis2-archetype-to-create-web.html

Thanks !

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, subs subs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a newbie to Axis2. I am currently trying to add Axis2 to my web
> application running on one of the instances of Tomcat 4.1.12(Our Tomcat
> installation is configured for multiple instances and I am trying to add
> Axis2 to a web application running at one of them).
>
> I read some information about adding Axis2 to existing applications at
> http://www.developer.com/services/article.php/3777111/Embedding-Apache-Axis2-into-Existing-Applications.htm.
>
> I encountered following problems in embedding Axis2:
>
> 1) I am not clear if we have to configure Axis2 in Tomcat(copy axis2.war
> into tomcat webapps) before starting to embed Axis2 to in our existing
> application.
> 2) I tried to follow the steps exactly as in the above web page. I got the
> following error 'java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet'.
>    I assume I have to add some jars to the classpath. So first I copied the
> axis2.war to $CATALINA_BASE/webapps folder and restarted Tomcat. But Tomcat
> did not explode the war file(Strangely I did not find  any error messages
> also!) . Then I tried with the binary distribution of Axis2(axis2-1.6.2). I
> see that there are about 114 jars in the axis2/axis2-1.6.2/lib directory of
> the
>    binary distribution. Do I need to add all of them to the classpath? Am I
> following the correct way of embedding Axis2?
>
> Please let me know. I tried to look in the web for answers, but could not
> find much help
>
> Thanks
> Vani



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