Debian+Apache+Tomcat+Axis

Hello,
one of the courses I’m following at the university is “Laboratorio di reti
di calcolatori” which uses the technologies (really technologies?????)
listed in the post title. This is a little tutorial for making them works,
with a little script for registering .wsdd files.

- aptitude install apache2 tomcat6
- download the binaries of axis 1.x (latest is 2.x, it’s not used in our course) and xerces then unpack them.
- copy *.jar of xerces into the “lib” dir of axis.
- create “/etc/tomcat6/policy.d/99axis.policy” with:

grant codeBase “file:/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/-” {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

- copy the “axis” directory found under webapps of the axis binaries into /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
- invoke-rc.d apache2 restart
- invoke-rc.d tomcat6 restart

Now go to http://localhost:8080 to make sure that Apache-Axis works.

Finally, this is the script for deploying web services (call it deploy.sh):

export AXIS_HOME="/home/lethal/ingegneria/reti/axis/axis-1_4"
export AXIS_LIB="$AXIS_HOME/lib"
export AXISCLASSPATH="$AXIS_LIB/axis.jar:$AXIS_LIB/commons-discovery-0.2.jar:$AXIS_LIB/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:$AXIS_LIB/jaxrpc.jar:$AXIS_LIB/saaj.jar:$AXIS_LIB/log4j-1.2.8.jar:$AXIS_LIB/xml-apis.jar:$AXIS_LIB/xercesImpl.jar"
java -cp “$AXISCLASSPATH” org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient -lhttp://localhost:8080/axis/services/AdminService “$1”

In the script, you must tweak the AXIS_HOME variable to point to the unpacked axis binaries: avoid using spaces in this variable or you’ll encounter several errors in terms of classpath.
Usage of the script:

sh deploy.sh file.wsdd

We’re done!