Chris,
I'm still new to this myself but here's my take on it. Axis provides a servlet, which is deployed in an application, through which all HTTP request for a service go. From Tomcat's (or any other application server's) point of view, it's just another web application. If you have configuration for an old application, containing servlets that you are converting to Axis services, then that configuration needs to be duplicated in the Axis web application. You probably shouldn't be using absolute paths but paths relative to the application context.
So, Axis is just a servlet. Your services are just part of the servlet, as far as Tomcat is concerned.
I don't think Axis needs to provide any direct support for the technologies that Tomcat supports. With JNDI, for example, Axis isn't another layer, it's a normal servlet. It's a while since I used JNDI with a servlet but I seem to remember that I didn't have to do anything special, once I'd defined the JNDI entries in Tomcat's configuration for the application (probably in server.xml). Maybe you need to use the servlet context (retrieved from the current message context) in some way, but I'm not sure even that is necessary, just get the initial context and off you go; it shouldn't be any different to how it was done in the original servlet.
Of course, all of the above may be garbage, in which case, I hope someone corrects me. But I think it's a reasonable view of the situation.
By the way, it's always best to include more information, rather than less. Some of your questions seem to assume that everyone knows a lot about your individual application and set up. Try and be more explicit and include relevant bits of code or configuration files. For example, saying that you've "copied the paths", is not very informative; it would be helped by including the actual section of server.xml that you are referring to.
Tony
Does axis even support JNDI? If so, how? I've defined the info in my
server.xml and web.xml files, but my web service still can't find the db.
Chris
- Re: JNDI in Axis tony . q . weddle
