And at last I seem to found the reason for the disappearing web service, albeit not the root cause. This post here https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=118673 gave me the idea of checking the file WEB-INF/server-config.wsdd. And indeed, there was no description of the deployed service at all! So, I copied over a backup copy of this file, restartet the server and everything's working fine again. I have no idea, why the service description disappeared in the first place. Might be related to the auto-deployment of the web-app using (My)Eclipse.
CHeers, Martin > Testing a bit more I was able to successfully deploy a different web service > to a > different location on the same Tomcat installation. Then I copied all > the resources to a new project (in Eclipse), which I deployed to a new > web-app and things seem to work there. So, at least I > have the problem limited down now to the original service that I > wanted to deploy. Still, it's puzzling... > In the process, I happened to notice that the SOAPMonitor tool can > only be used, if Tomcat is installed on port 8080. Is there a way to > change the port to 80? It reverts back to 8080, even if I call the > SOAPMonitor with http://localhost/.... > Cheers, > Martin