Does Axis know of the application specific WEB-INF/web.xml ? I have set up Data Sources correcty when useing the JWS SDK and within that I needed a resource identified correctly in my application specific WEB-INF/web.xml , but Axis seems to not even care about that file.
Where is your service class that Axis loads? If it's inside of a war file, (or in a webapp directory) then it should be able to lookup resources through JNDI.
Axis doesn't seem to care about web.xml, application.xml or any of the typical deployment descriptors. Just tell Axis about your service class and the rest is handled by the container that you're running in.
