deploying a service with packages

[Paul Phillips]

Hello,

I am trying to setup an Axis web service the "proper" way, by not using 
the .jws technique, but I am having a few difficulties.

On the server side I have several classes that have to import each 
other, specifically one that returns a connection to my database.  Now I 
know these classes work on their own, I can connect to the database by 
running it as a standalone app.  However, deploying and calling it from 
the client is puzzling me.

I have my service setup at http://localhost:8080/axis/delta and I have 
created a package org.ppinc.deltadown.  So I now have a path 
http://localhost:8080/axis/delta/org/ppinc/deltadown/ where my .java and 
.class files are.

Now I don't know what I am supposed to do, am I supposed to create a 
.jar file of this packages directory structure?  If I am, where do I put 
the .jar?  Where am I supposed to point the client app?

I have created a deploy.wsdd that looks like this:

<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"; 
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java";>
 <service name="deltadown" provider="java:RPC">
  <parameter name="className" value="org.ppinc.deltadown.ProcessLogin"/>
  <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/>
    <operation name="authenticateUser">
      <parameter name="arg1" mode="IN"/>
    </operation>
 </service>
</deployment>

So I have a class called ProcessLogin with one function called 
authenticateUser that takes one parameter.

I have deployed the service by running

java -cp $AXISCLASSPATH org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient 
-lhttp://localhost:8080/axis/services/AdminService deploy.wsdd
Processing file deploy.wsdd
<Admin>Done processing</Admin>

On the client side I have this code:

String endpointURL = 							 
"http://127.0.0.1:8081/axis/delta/org/ppinc/deltadown/";;

Service  service = new Service();
Call call = (Call)service.createCall();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(new java.net.URL(endpointURL));
call.setOperationName(new QName("MyService", "authenticateUser"));
call.addParameter("arg1", XMLType.XSD_STRING, ParameterMode.IN);
call.setReturnType(org.apache.axis.encoding.XMLType.XSD_STRING);
String ret = (String) call.invoke( new Object[] { "a string" } );
And when I run this the service just returns a html page that you get if 
you browsed to http://127.0.0.1:8081/axis/delta/org/ppinc/deltadown/

The stack trace looks like this:

AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
 faultSubcode:
 faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag:  html
 faultActor:
 faultNode:
 faultDetail:
        {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace: 
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag:  html
        at 
org.apache.axis.message.EnvelopeBuilder.startElement(EnvelopeBuilder.java:109)
        at 
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:976)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:454)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.handleStartElement(XMLNamespaceBinder.java:876)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.startElement(XMLNamespaceBinder.java:568)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:756)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:752)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:942)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1520)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:333)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:524)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:580)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1169)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
        at 
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:242)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538)
        at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:376)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2583)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2553)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2248)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2171)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1691)
        at Login.doLogin(Login.java:58)

Is my endpointURL setup correctly?
What am I supposed to do with the package I have created on the server? 
(ie, create a .jar etc)
Is this the right code to be calling from the client?

Any help will be much appreciated

~Paul P