Hi, I would like to find out if there is a way I could get the content of server-config.wsdd programmatically.
I understand that server-config.wsdd is created when I call the Axis AdminClient with the Axis servlet URL and a deploy.wsdd file. The server-config.wsdd file is generated into the publish directory of the server. This present a problem because in Eclipse WTP, the server publish the content from the Eclipse workspace but the "live" publish directory the server uses may or may not be in the workspace (it could be in some temporary location or server specific location that the workspace content is copied to). This causes a problem because the server-config.wsdd that contains information on what Web services are deployed could be lost when the server republishes from the workspace (since that file is not in the workspace but is in the "live" publish directory). I need to find a way to persist the server-config.wsdd in the Eclipse workspace so that the information would not be lost in subsequent republish. One way I was able to workaround the problem is copying the server-config.wsdd file from the server's live publish directory back to the workspace but it requires the servers to implement an API to return the publish directory. However, that means we need to ask all servers we could generate Axis Web service on to support it. This is not scalable or easily achievable since that list of servers are growing constantly. So, I would like to find out if there's a call I could make (or a parameter I could specify in AdminClient) that would return the content of server-config.wsdd file programmatically rather then just expect to find it in the server's publish directory. If this support is not there currently, could it be easily implemented in the next release? Regards, Kathy Chan
