why have to copy .class files of existing webapp into Axis web-inf folder??

[Alex Bates]

Hi,   I have an existing webapp running on Tomcat.  I want to expose some methods in this webapp as Axis web services.  Axis is a separate webapp – the examples I’ve seen so far have had to copy .class or .jar files into the Axis WEB-INF\classes directory.   But this approach doesn’t seem reasonable, it would lead to versioning issues (i.e. how often to copy from “tomcat\webapps\MyWebApp\WEB-INF\classes” to “tomcat\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\classes” to keep the two versions in sync ).    What I’m looking for is something similar to the ability to expose existing COM components as web services with Microsoft’s WSTK; but instead of COM components they’re Java components running in a webapp.    I tried simply creating a WSDD for my existing app and not copying the .class and .jar files into the axis\WEB-INF directory, and got the following exeption:     Fault - org.apache.axis.ConfigurationException: Could not find class for the service named: com.mycompany.myservice Hint: you may need to copy your class files/tree into the right location (which depends on the servlet system you are using). AxisFault faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Server.generalException faultString: Could not find class for the service named: com.mycompany.myservice Hint: you may need to copy your class files/tree into the right location (which depends on the servlet system you are using). faultActor: null faultDetail:       Thanks in advance –   Alex (please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED])