Hello I do not want to deploy axis as separate application under my webapps (applications in case of weblogic). If i try to deploy it as war file it fails giving me nullpointerexception where it tries to find getRealPath("/web-inf") i saw couple of posts regarding this but did not get proper idea.. can somebody suggest me how can i do this. thanks _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com