Axis v1.x
Common Questions
What are Web Services and what is Axis?
Which industry standards does Axis support?
What web service/SOAP toolkits are available?
Where do I find the most recent nightly builds?
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?
How do I set HTTP headers in Axis clients?
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?
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Frequently Ask Questions & Samples
Frenquently Ask Questions
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Samples with the Axis Framework
Future Releases
Axis 1.5 Release Plan - proposed