Installation help for Axis on IBM WebSphere

Websphere 5.1

• Open Websphere Web Admin Console
• In Environment / Shared Libraries, create a new Shared Library (e.g. at Node scope) :

  • Name : Axis Library

  • Value : <copy the four entries below and keep line breaks> {{{/path/to/axis/jars/axis.jar

/path/to/axis/jars/saaj.jar /path/to/axis/jars/jaxrpc.jar /path/to/axis/jars/wsdl4j.jar}}}

• Install your Web Application (for example axis.war with enterprise application name Axis_war)

• In Applications / Axis_war / Libraries, add library Axis Library

• Check the following classloader policies
  • Application Server

    • Application classloader policy : Multiple

  • Enterprise Application

    • Classloader Mode : PARENT_LAST

    • WAR Classloader Policy : Module

  • Web Module :

    • Classloader Mode : PARENT_FIRST

• Save

• Start your Axis_war enterprise application

• check http://localhost:9080/axis/happyaxis.jsp, you will see the location /path/to/axis/jar/* for the following components :

  • Found SAAJ API ( javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage ) at ...
  • Found JAX-RPC API ( javax.xml.rpc.Service ) at ...

  • Found IBM's WSDL4Java ( com.ibm.wsdl.factory.WSDLFactoryImpl ) at

Notes

• Infocenter docs, "Managing shared libraries" : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r1//topic/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/tcws_sharedlib.html

Websphere 5.0

WebSphere 5.0 ships with Axis 1.0 built in.