Axis installation - WSDL2Java

[Marika Ludmann]

I am new to Axis and Web services development. I have however done web development (JSP, Servlets). I also done some web service development in .NET.     I need to create a web service and client and service using Java and I am trying to (need to) use Axis. I am also using JBOSS to deploy the application.     I have downloaded AXIS-1_1 and set the class path for the jars as instructed. I did not install it as it said that I could just include the .jars in my .war file     I have several WSDL documents on which my webservice I am trying to build, is based on. I realise I can use the Axis WSDL2Java tool to create proxy and skeleton classes .   But when I try to run the command and get  the exception:   C:\>java org.apache.axis.wsdl   .WSDL2Java MyClient.wsdl   Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/di   scovery/tools/DiscoverSingleton           at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory$1.run(LogFactory.java:84   )           at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)           at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.getLogFactory(LogFactory   .java:80)           at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.<clinit>(LogFactory.java   :72)           at org.apache.axis.i18n.ProjectResourceBundle.<clinit>(ProjectResourceBu   ndle.java:92)           at org.apache.axis.i18n.MessagesConstants.<clinit>(MessagesConstants.jav   a:71)         at org.apache.axis.utils.Messages.<clinit>(Messages.java:75)           at org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java.<clinit>(WSDL2Java.java:99)    What do I need to do, where do I need to run this command? Do I need to install Axis on the server and then start the server, before I can run the command?       Any help appreciated.           Marika Ludmann     Marika Ludmann KTP Associate Zeraxis - University of Greenwich