I have Windows XP Professional installed. And I've downloaded and installed Apache Tomcat 4.1.27 and Apache Axis 1.1 (I'm not going to be using .Net or anything like that). Can someone tell me step-by-step exactly what I should do to set this machine up to run SOAP? I've tried following examples on web sites but they aren't very clear- they make too many assumptions. Like I said, I'm very new to this. Do I need to do classpath modifications, etc.?
Oh, I think I should mention, too, that I've got JBuilder 9 Enterprise installed as well. Thanks- any help is appreciated.
Look at this:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/RUNNING.txt
And this: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/ws-axis/java/docs/install.html (This is embedded in a frame at http://ws.apache.org/axis/)
Here is a basic summary:
1. unzip tomcat. put shortcuts to startup/shutdown on your desktop for easy access
2. unzip axis in a sibling directory to tomcat. [verify installed with localhost:8080]
3. copy axis/webapps/axis into tomcat/webapps [verify installed with localhost:8080/axis]
4. enjoy.
Setting up your devel environment is more complex. To simplify put everything in axis/lib and tomcat/common/lib in your classpath. Read the docs on how to setup the admin client and soap monitor (the docs are a little weak in these areas, so you may have to hunt).
I am of the personal opinion that the samples are really bad. There is a confusing mix of generated and custom classes. Much better would be to have several independant, ant-driven projects that can be build from scratch. I may rewrite some of the samples and submit the work as a patch.
