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<h1>Apache Axis2 User's Guide - Installing and Testing Client
Code</h1>
<p>The best way to make sure that your system is running Apache
Axis2 is to install and test both a service and a client. The
process involves the following steps:</p>
<h2>Content</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="userguide.html#intro">Introducing Axis2</a><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="userguide.html#whatis">What is Axis2?</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#underhood">What's under the
hood?</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#handlessoap">How Axis2 handles SOAP
messages</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#distributions">Axis2
distributions</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#sbd">The Axis2 Standard Binary
Distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#hierarchy">Axis2.war Directory
Hierarchy</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#docs">Axis2 Documents
Distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide.html#clients">Axis2 and clients</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href=
"userguide-installingtesting.html#installingtesting"><strong>Installing
and testing client code</strong></a></li>
<li><a href=
"userguide-introtoservices.html#introservices">Introduction to
Services</a><br />
<ul>
<li><a href=
"userguide-introtoservices.html#messageexchange">Message Exchange
Patterns</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="userguide-creatingclients.html#createclients">Creating
Clients</a><br />
<ul>
<li><a href=
"userguide-creatingclients.html#choosingclient">Choosing a Client
Generation Method</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide-creatingclients.html#generating">Generating
Clients</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide-creatingclients.html#adb">Axis Data Binding
(ADB)</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href=
"userguide-buildingservices.html#buildservices">Building
Services</a><br />
<ul>
<li><a href=
"userguide-buildingservices.html#getcomfortable">Getting
Comfortable with the Available Options</a></li>
<li><a href=
"userguide-buildingservices.html#createscratch">Creating a service
from scratch</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide-buildingservices.html#deploypojo">Deploying
Plain Old Java Objects</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide-buildingservices.html#deployrun">Deploying
and running an Axis2 service created from WSDL</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="userguide-samples.html">Samples</a></li>
<li><a href="userguide-forfurtherstudy.html">For Further
Study</a></li>
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<p><b>The Short Story:</b></p>
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<li>Install Apache Axis2 in a suitable container, such as Apache
Tomcat, by copying the axis2.war file to the webapps
directory.</li>
<li>Install the service into the Axis2 application by copying the
*.aar file into the Axis2 services directory.</li>
<li>Install the client on the system on which you want to run it,
and make sure all the Axis2 libraries are on the CLASSPATH.</li>
<li>Run the client.</li>
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<p><b>The Long Story:</b></p>
<p>Start by installing a suitable container, such as <a href=
"http://tomcat.apache.org/">Apache Tomcat</a>. Any J2EE server will
do. To install Apache Axis2 on the server, <a href="../download.cgi">download</a> the Axis2 WAR
distribution and place the axis2.war file in the server's webapps directory. The
server will then expand the distribution into its proper structure,
as seen in the <a href="userguide.html#hierarchy">earlier
section</a>.</p>
<p>Apache Axis2 services come bundled as *.aar files, which contain
all the pieces necessary to define the service, such as the
necessary classes and libraries and the services.xml file that
defines the service's behavior. You can install the service using
the <a href="webadminguide.html">Web administration
application</a>, but to make things simple for now, copy the *.aar
file into the Axis2 services directory. For example, to install the
MyService service distributed as one of the Axis2 samples, copy the
file &lt;AXIS2_HOME&gt;/samples/userguide/build/MyService.aar file,
which is built using the <code>ant</code> command, from
&lt;AXIS2_HOME&gt;/samples/userguide, to the directory
&lt;J2EE_HOME&gt;/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/services.</p>
<p>Your client can come in any number of forms, from a collection
of files to a single *.jar file. The important thing is to ensure
that all the appropriate classes are on the classpath. In addition
to the classes that pertain to the actual client, you must also add
the Axis2 .jar files into the CLASSPATH. Normally you will do this
by downloading and unpacking the <a href="../download.cgi">
Axis2 Standard Distribution</a> and adding the *.jar files in the
lib directory to your CLASSPATH, or you also have the option of
running your client using the axis2.bat (or axis2.sh) script, which
takes care of it for you. For example, you can run a client with
the command:</p>
<p>axis2 org.apache.axis2.axis2userguide.Client.</p>
<p><strong>See Next Section</strong>- <a href=
"userguide-introtoservices.html#introservices">Introduction to
Services</a></p>
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