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| <h1>Apache Axis2 User's Guide - Installing and Testing Client Code</h1> |
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| <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> |
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| <h2>Content</h2> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="userguide.html#intro">Introducing Axis2</a><br> |
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| <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> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="userguide-introtoservices.html#messageexchange">Message |
| Exchange Patterns</a></li> |
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| <li><a href="userguide-creatingclients.html#createclients">Creating |
| Clients</a><br> |
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| <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> |
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| <li><a href="userguide-buildingservices.html#buildservices">Building |
| Services</a><br> |
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| <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> |
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| <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, download the Axis2 WAR distribution |
| from <a |
| href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi</a> |
| 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-intro.html#hierarchy">earlier section</a>.</p> |
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| <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 |
| <AXIS2_HOME>/samples/userguide/build/MyService.aar file, which is built |
| using the <code>ant</code> command, from |
| <AXIS2_HOME>/samples/userguide, to the directory |
| <J2EE_HOME>/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/services.</p> |
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| <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="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download/@axis2_version_dir@/download.cgi#std-bin">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> |
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| <p>axis2 org.apache.axis2.axis2userguide.Client.</p> |
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| <p><strong>See Next Section</strong>- <a |
| href="userguide-introtoservices.html#introservices">Introduction to |
| Services</a></p> |
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