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| <h1 align="center">Axis2 Installation Guide</h1> |
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| <p><i>Version 0.95</i></p> |
| <i>Feedback: <a |
| href="mailto:axis-dev@ws.apache.org">axis-dev@ws.apache.org</a></i> |
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| <h3>Contents</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="#Download_Axis2">Download Axis2</a></li> |
| <li><p><a href="#requirements">System Requirements</a></p> |
| </li> |
| <li><a href="#_Toc96698083">Setting up the Environment and tools</a> |
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| <li><p><a href="#maven">Maven</a></p> |
| </li> |
| <li><a href="#_Toc96698085">The Axis2 source distribution</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><p><a href="#_Toc96698086">Installing Axis2 in a Servlet |
| container</a></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="#upload">Uploading services</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <a name="Download_Axis2"></a> |
| <h3>Download Axis2</h3> |
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| <p>Axis2 is distributed in several convenient distribution packages and can |
| be installed either as a standalone server or as part of a J2EE compliant |
| servlet container. Axis2 is distributed under the Apache License, version |
| 2.0. You can download Axis2 <a |
| href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">here</a>. Latest release of |
| Axis2 is version 0.95.</p> |
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| <table width="940" border="1" cellpadding="1"> |
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| <tr> |
| <th width="83" scope="col">Distribution Name</th> |
| <th width="633" scope="col">Description</th> |
| <th width="202" scope="col">Items</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Minimal Distribution - Binary</td> |
| <td>This distribution is aimed at advanced users who will be embedding |
| Axis2. It will contain the minimal runtime required to act as a Web |
| Service client and/or a server (axis2-core-0.95.jar will contain |
| compiled versions of common, xml, wsdl and core modules.)</td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>axis2-core-0.95.jar, axis2-adb-0.95.jar</li> |
| <li>third party distributable libraries</li> |
| <li>README.TXT and release-notes.html</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Minimal Distribution - Source</td> |
| <td background="#_Toc96698083"><p>This will contain the sources of |
| Axis2 minimal distribution. One can generate a binary distribution |
| from this by typing <span class="style1">$maven dist-min-bin. |
| </span>(<a href="#_Toc96698083">Set up Axis2 environment</a> before |
| running this command)</p> |
| </td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>sources of Axis2 common, xml, wsdl, adb and core modules</li> |
| <li>README.TXT and release-notes.html</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Standard Distribution - Binary</td> |
| <td>This is the complete version of Axis2 and will contain useful |
| samples as well. Useful for some one to get familiar with Axis2. |
| (Since WS-Addressing implementation module is engaged in to Axis2, by |
| default, this distribution will contain addressing.mar. But the |
| other modules that are being developed within Axis2 will not be |
| included here and are available to be downloaded separately from <a |
| href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">here</a>.)</td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>all the content of minimal-binary distribution</li> |
| <li>Contents of codegen and DOOM modules</li> |
| <li>Samples</li> |
| <li>addressing.mar</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Standard Distribution - Source</td> |
| <td>This will contain the sources of Axis2 standard distribution. One |
| can generate a binary distribution from this by typing <span |
| class="style1">$maven dist-standard-bin. </span>(<a |
| href="#_Toc96698083">Set up Axis2 environment</a> before running this |
| command)</td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>all the content of minimal-source distribution</li> |
| <li>Contents of codegen and DOOM modules</li> |
| <li>Samples</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>WAR (Web Archive) Distribution</td> |
| <td>This will be the web application of Axis2 which can be deployed in |
| most of the servlet containers.</td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>all the contents of the minimal distribution</li> |
| <li>Admin web app</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Documents Distribution</td> |
| <td>This will contain all the documentation in one package.</td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>xdocs</li> |
| <li>javadocs</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Plugin Distribution</td> |
| <td>This will contain the plugins that are created for Eclipse and |
| IDEA.</td> |
| <td><ul> |
| <li>Intellij IDEA plugins</li> |
| <li>Eclipse plugins</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| <a name="requirements"></a> |
| <h3>System Requirements</h3> |
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| <caption></caption> |
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| <td>Java Runtime |
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| <p>Environment</p> |
| </td> |
| <td>1.4 (It has not been fully tested on the latest JRE 1.5) |
| |
| <p>For instructions on setting up the JRE in different operating |
| systems, visit <a |
| href="http://java.sun.com/">http://java.sun.com</a></p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Maven</td> |
| <td>1.0.2 or higher in Maven 1.x series (<a |
| href="http://maven.apache.org/">download</a>). <strong>Please |
| download maven 1.x version. Axis2 is not compatible with maven2 |
| yet.</strong> |
| |
| <p>Required only for building Axis2 from source distribution</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td>Memory</td> |
| <td>No minimum requirement</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Disk</td> |
| <td>No minimum requirement. |
| |
| <p>Approximately 20 MB will be used for war distribution</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Operating system</td> |
| <td>Tested on Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X, Fedora core, Ubuntu, |
| Gentoo</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
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| <p>All the required jars are shipped with the binary distribution.</p> |
| |
| <p>Running the Maven build will automatically download the required jars when |
| using source distribution.</p> |
| <a name="_Toc96698083"></a> |
| <h3>Setting up the Environment and Tools</h3> |
| <a name="maven"></a> |
| <h4>Maven</h4> |
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| <p>The Axis2 build is based on</p> |
| <a href="http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/">Maven </a>. Hence the only |
| prerequisite to build Axis2 from source distribution is to have Maven |
| installed. Extensive instruction guides are available at the Maven site.This |
| guide however contains the easiest path for quick environment setting. |
| Advanced users who wish to know more about Maven can visit <a |
| href="http://maven.apache.org/start/index.html">here </a>. |
| <ul> |
| <li>Windows</li> |
| </ul> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Download and run the Windows installer package</li> |
| <li>Set the 'Environment Variables' ( create system variable MAVEN_HOME and |
| edit path. eg: "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\maven-1.0.2"; |
| path %MAVEN_HOME%\bin)</li> |
| <li>Make sure that system variable JAVA_HOME is set to the location of your |
| JDK, eg. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02</li> |
| <li>Run maven --version to verify that it is correctly installed.</li> |
| </ol> |
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| <p align="center"><img alt="clip_image002 (15K)" |
| src="images/clip_image002.jpg" height="211" width="477"></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Unix based OS (Linux etc)</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>The tar ball or the zip archive is the best option. Once the archive is |
| downloaded expand it to a directory of choice and set the environment |
| variable MAVEN_HOME and add MAVEN_HOME/bin to the path as well. More |
| instructions for installing Maven in Unix based operating systems can be |
| found <a href="http://maven.apache.org/start/install.html">here </a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Once maven is properly installed you can start building Axis2.</p> |
| <a name="_Toc96698085"></a> |
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| <h4>The Axis2 source distribution</h4> |
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| <p>The <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">source distribution |
| </a> is available as a zipped archive. All the necessary build scripts are |
| included with the source distribution. Once the source archive is expanded |
| into a directory of choice, moving to the particular directory and running |
| maven command will build the Axis2 jar file.</p> |
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| <p align="center"><img alt="clip_image004 (43K)" src="images/maven.jpg"/><br clear="all"/></p> |
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| <p>Once the command completes, the binaries (jar files in this case) can be |
| found at a newly created "target" directory.</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Note: For the first Maven build (if the maven repository is not |
| built first) it will take a while since required jars need to be downloaded. |
| However this is a once only process and will not affect any successive |
| builds.</strong></p> |
| |
| <p><strong></strong>The default maven build will however build only the Axis2 |
| jar file. To obtain a WAR (Web Archive), "maven war" command should be |
| issued. This will create a complete WAR with the name axis2.war inside the |
| target directory.</p> |
| |
| <p>Once this build step is complete, the binaries are ready to be |
| deployed.</p> |
| <a name="_Toc96698086"></a> |
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| <h3>Installing Axis2 in a Servlet container</h3> |
| <ol> |
| <li><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download</a> Axis2 war file</li> |
| <li>Drop the war in the webapps folder. Most servlet containers will |
| automatically install war. (some servlet containers may require a restart |
| in order to capture the new web application. Refer your servlet container |
| documentation for more information about this.)</li> |
| <li>Once the WAR is successfully installed, test it by pointing the web |
| browser to the <strong>http:// <host :port>/ axis2. </strong>It |
| should produce the following page which is the <strong>Axis2 Web |
| Application Home Page</strong>.</li> |
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| <p align="center"><strong><img src="images/clip_image006.jpg" |
| alt=""></strong></p> |
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| <p></p> |
| <li>Use validate link to ensure that everything is fine and smooth. If the |
| validation fails then the war has failed to install properly or some |
| essential jars are missing. At such a situation the documentation of the |
| particular servlet container should be consulted to find the problem. The |
| following page is a successful validation. Note the statement core Axis2 |
| libraries are present. |
| <p></p> |
| </li> |
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| <p align="center"><strong><img src="images/happyaxis.jpg" |
| alt=""></strong></p> |
| </ol> |
| <a name="upload"></a> |
| <h4>Uploading services</h4> |
| <ol> |
| <p>The Axis2 web application also provides an interface to upload services. |
| Once a service is created according to the service specification as |
| described in userguide that jar file can be uploaded using the upload |
| page.</p> |
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| <p align="center"><strong><img src="images/clip_image010.jpg" |
| alt=""></strong></p> |
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| <p>The uploaded jar files will be stored in the default service directory. |
| For Axis2 this will be the <webapps>/axis2/WEB-INF/services |
| directory. Once a service is uploaded it will be installed instantly.</p> |
| |
| <p>Since Axis2 supports hot deployment one can drop the service jar |
| directly through the file system to the above mentioned services |
| directory.It will also cause the service to be automatically installed |
| without the container being restarted.</p> |
| |
| <p>Use the 'Services' link on the Web Application home page to check the |
| successful installation of a service. The services and the operations of |
| successfully installed services will be displayed in the available services |
| page.</p> |
| |
| <p align="center"><img src="images/clip_image012.jpg" alt=""></p> |
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| <p></p> |
| |
| <p>If the service has deployment time error it will list those services as |
| faulty services. If you click on the link you can see the your deployment |
| fault error message(s).</p> |
| |
| <p align="center"><img src="images/faultservice.jpg" alt=""></p> |
| |
| <p>Deployment time error message</p> |
| |
| <p align="center"><strong><img src="images/faultmsg.jpg" |
| alt=""></strong></p> |
| |
| <p></p> |
| |
| <p>Axis2 Administration is all about configuring Axis2 at the run time and |
| the configuration will be transient. More descriptions are available in <a |
| href="webadminguide.html">Axis2 Web Administration Guide</a></p> |
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