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Axis v1.x

Common Questions

• What are Web Services and what is Axis?

• Which industry standards does Axis support?

• Which products use Axis?

• What web service/SOAP toolkits are available?

• How do I build Axis CVS?

• Where do I find the most recent nightly builds?

• How do I report bugs?

• Are there any tutorials on Axis?

Development Questions

• How do I install Axis on my application server?

• How do I install and deploy the web services I create?

• Where do I find examples of using Axis?

• How do I use Java2WSDL/WSDL2Java/AdminClient/TCPMon?

• How do I associate a namespace mapping with my service?

• How do I use Axis without an application server?

• Which style of WSDL should I use? RPC/encoded, RPC/literal, document/literal? Which one?

• What does "wrapped" mean? How is it different from "document"?

• How does Axis create my backend service objects? Can I control this?

• How does Axis figure out which deployed service to call?

• Does Axis support sessions?

• Where do I put my <typeMapping>/<beanMapping> information?

• How do I get access to the MessageContext in my service object?

• How do I get access to the HttpServletRequest that called my service?

• What are the differences in JAX-RPC binding patterns?

• Which method signatures are allowed for message style service methods?

• How can I get access to the ServletContext from my code?

• How to deploy a EJB as a Web Service on Axis

• Can i use Castor with Axis?

• Do JBoss and Axis play together nicely?

• How do I deploy a service (i.e. update the server-config.wsdd) without a running Axis server?

• How do I deploy a service on web application initialization?

• What is the relationship between Axis and the IBM Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) (formerly Web Services Toolkit (WSTK))?

• How do I make Axis and my applications to use the same log-system as my servlet engine?

• How do I manually supply WSDL instead of returning automatically generated WSDL?

• What tools are available for validating or editing XML/WSDL/Schema files?

• How do I get/set headers when using WSDL2Java stubs?

• How do I get/set headers in my web service code?

• How do I get headers in the WSDL generated for my service?

• What is the relationship between Axis and JAXM?

• What is the status of WS-Security support in Axis?

• How do I use SAX streaming in my service?

• Where does Java2WSDL pick up the names for method parameters?

• Only the top level element has the namespace I expect, or why do I keep seeing xmlns="" in my requests?

• Where can I find WSDD file format documentation?

• How to enable hot undeploying/deploying of WAR files to Tomcat running on Windows

Client Related

• How do I create a client for my web service?

• How do I set a timeout when using WSDL2Java stubs?

• How do I configure a proxy?

• Does Axis support the HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive header?

• How do I get the AXIS client to notice client-config.wsdd?

• How do I configure the Axis client to pool connections with Apache Jakarta Commons-HttpClient?

• How do I use Axis with Web Start?

• How do I setup handlers in Axis clients?

• How To display SOAP Messages in Axis Client ?

• How do I get the IP address of the client?

• How to use SSL in Axis Clients ?

• How to use Gzip compression with Axis ?

• How do I select a client certificate for SSL at run time?

• How do I interrupt a thread that is blocked in a remote call?

Attachments

• How do I use attachments?

• Where can I see some sample java code for attachments?

• How do I specify where attachments are written?

• Why are not my attachments transfered correctly (i.e. problems w/ attachments)?

Troubleshooting

• How do I view the soap messages using log4j?

• How do I diagnose problems?

• How do I monitor SOAP traffic?

• How do I enable the SOAP Monitor?

• Dealing with Common Exceptions

Development Tool Integration

• How do I use Axis with Ant?

• How do I restart just the Axis webapp using an Ant task (Tomcat)?

• How do I integrate Axis with my IDE?

• How do I integrate Axis with XDoclet?

• How do I integrate Axis with Maven ?

Specifications

• What's the difference between style attribute in WSDL is different from the style attribute in WSDD?

Interoperability

• with other JAX-RPC implementations?

• with Microsoft .NET Framework?

• with Microsoft .NET Compact Framework?

Security

• How do I make my web services secure?

• How do I deploy and access Web Services Over SSL

• How do I use SSL with an unsigned certificate?

Upgrading

• Where can I get a list of JavaDoc API differences between Axis 1.0 and 1.1?

• How do I migrate from Apache SOAP 2.3.1 to Axis?

• Javadoc differences between versions?

Not-yet-categorized

• XML Schema for WSDD

• DTD for WSDD

Frequently Ask Questions & Samples

• Frenquently Ask Questions

• Axis Archive - A searchable archive that combines all Axis user and dev mailing lists. Search here to find out if your question has been discussed before.

• Samples with the Axis Framework

Future Releases

• Axis 1.5 Release Plan - proposed