I got my web services working using I believe an 'old school' (java 1.4?) method of building the services (java2wsdl etc)
Now the boss decided we should use the more lightweight 1.6 WsGen method. I added in the standard cheesy main that allows the 1.6 jvm to run as a lightweight server. I ran WsGen on the service which made some class files in the jaxws subdirectory. All good. Here's an except of the service: @WebServicepublic class Snapshot { private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Snapshot.class); public Snapshot() { } @WebMethod public String retrieveSurvey(String surveyTypeName, String surveyVersionName) { return (String) serviceWrapper(new SurveyFetcher(surveyTypeName, surveyVersionName)); } @WebMethod public LoadResult submitSurvey(SurveyAnswers surveyAnswers) { return (LoadResult) serviceWrapper(new SurveyChecker(surveyAnswers)); } public static void main(String[] args) { Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:9090/snapshot", new Snapshot()); } When I run the main from the IDE. It sits there and listens to port 9090. I expect to be able to browse to http://localhost:9090/snapshot?wsdl and see a wsdl. Instead, I get the following in all cases: <Exception>org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: The service cannot be found for the endpoint reference (EPR) /services/ at org.apache.axis2.engine.DispatchPhase.checkPostConditions(DispatchPhase.java:65) at org.apache.axis2.engine.Phase.invoke(Phase.java:334) at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.invoke(AxisEngine.java:251) at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:160) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.util.RESTUtil.invokeAxisEngine(RESTUtil.java:135) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.util.RESTUtil.processURLRequest(RESTUtil.java:130) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPWorker.service(HTTPWorker.java:246) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.server.AxisHttpService.doService(AxisHttpService.java:281) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.server.AxisHttpService.handleRequest(AxisHttpService.java:187) at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.server.HttpServiceProcessor.run(HttpServiceProcessor.java:82) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)</Exception>I don't know why it is referring to /services. The 'Hello World' test program I ran didn't. I don't believe the web service is loaded properly. I have no idea why not. I have tried lots of combinations of things. Nothing makes a difference. Here's an except of the logs showing the web service container's fixation with /services 2009-10-06 16:56:35,608 DEBUG [HttpListener-9090-1] (DefaultConnectionListener.java:81) - Incoming HTTP connection from /127.0.0.1:22952009-10-06 16:56:35,624 DEBUG [HttpListener-9090-1] (DefaultConnectionListener.java:78) - Waiting for incoming HTTP connection2009-10-06 16:56:35,624 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (HttpServiceProcessor.java:78) - New connection thread2009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpService.java:135) - Remote address of the connection : 127.0.0.12009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:139) - >> GET /services/ HTTP/1.12009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Host: localhost:90902009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.32009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.82009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Accept-Language: en-us2009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate2009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.72009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Keep-Alive: 3002009-10-06 16:56:35,639 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpConnectionImpl.java:141) - >> Connection: keep-alive2009-10-06 16:56:35,655 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpService.java:243) - Request method: GET2009-10-06 16:56:35,655 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (AxisHttpService.java:244) - Target URI: /services/2009-10-06 16:56:35,655 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (BuilderUtil.java:365) - Input contentType (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)2009-10-06 16:56:35,655 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (BuilderUtil.java:381) - CharSetEncoding defaulted (UTF-8)2009-10-06 16:56:35,655 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (RequestURIBasedServiceDispatcher.java:50) - [MessageContext: logID=urn:uuid:CEFF3F714B8C44A6EB1254862595665] Checking for Service using target endpoint address : /services/2009-10-06 16:56:35,655 DEBUG [HttpConnection-9090-1] (Utils.java:201) - parseRequestURLForServiceAndOperation : [/services/][/services] Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?