Re: Newbie Question - Client Development - Axis Jars

[Dies Koper <di...@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hello Mike,

Yes, that is right.
Your client uses JAX-RPC methods (javax.xml.rpc.ServiceFactory, etc.) 
which are in jaxrpc.jar. Many of the classes in here are abstract 
classes or interfaces, with the implementation classes in axis.jar.
To construct the SOAP messages to communicate with the server, Axis uses 
SAAJ, which is in saaj.jar.
Axis has also dependencies on other jars such as log4j for its logging. 
So basically you end up copying all jars to the machines you run your 
client on.

Regards,
Dies


Mike Hammer wrote:
> All, 
>        New to Axis.  I have installed AXIS  under  Oracle Application 
> server on a Sun Solaris box and written a simple service and installed it 
> using the JWS simple deployment method.   I am able to retrieve the WSDL 
> for the service from a Windows IE  client.  So far so good.  Now I want to 
> develop a simple client on my Windows  desktop.  This is where I'm 
> confused.  In order to develop the client  on my Windows workstation it 
> appears as though I need to  have all of the AXIS jar files  on the 
> workstation and in my classpath  otherwise I won't be able to use   the 
> WSDL2Java utility to create the stubs on my  Windows workstation .  Is 
> this correct or am i missing something here?  If I were to deploy my 
> client app to other Windows workstations, would  I also  need to include 
> all of the AXIS jar files as part of the client app deployment ? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> J . Mike