Best solution is to use Apache Axis 2 but if it's unavoidable to use Axis 1 then try the below solution.
Solution is to bundle the below 2 jars into APP-INF\lib folder as part of the ear, 1) axis.jar 2) commons-discovery-0.2.jar -- Sent from: http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/TomEE-Users-f979441.html
