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reference to AxisServer fails

           Summary: reference to AxisServer fails
           Product: Axis
           Version: current (nightly)
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Deployment / Registries
        AssignedTo: axis-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: chris.peake@ca.com


Moved from beta 2 to RC1. 

Fail to get a reference to AxisServer. 

Situation: 
Previously,  a user deployed a service from a jar that was in the classpath and 
updated the server-config.wsdd. 
If for whatever reasons, the container was stopped.  (in this case tomcat).  
And the 'jar' that had services deployed from it

now is removed from the classpath, when we startup Axis and try to get a 
reference to the AxisServer, we fail because of the

WSDDException that is wrapped from a 'ClassNotfoundExcetpion'. 
  
Looks like on startup now, the server-config.wsdd is 'validated'. 
Previously, this was not the case. 

Is there any way to get around this? 

I've tried catching an exception but I simply can't get a reference to the 
AxisServer using 
AxisServer axisserverref = AxisServlet.getEngine(servlet); 

Return from the above statement is 'null' if on startup a service description 
is still in server-config.wsdd but teh jar that contains this deployed class 
has been removed from the classpath.

I would like to handle the users experience a little nicer than just failing to 
start up. 

If this is the desired behavior, I would like 'option' to turn off this 
behavior.

org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDException: 
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: peakeserver.EchoComplex 
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: peakeserver.EchoComplex       at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass
(WebappClassLoader.java:1307)  at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass
(WebappClassLoader.java:1156)  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal
(ClassLoader.java:315)        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)      
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:120)      at 
org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils$2.run(ClassUtils.java:197)  at 
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)   at 
org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils.loadClass(ClassUtils.java:171)      at 
org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:112)        at 
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDTypeMapping.getLanguageSpecificType
(WSDDTypeMapping.java:221)    at 
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping
(WSDDService.java:502)  at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR
(WSDDService.java:637)    at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>
(WSDDService.java:234)     at 
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>
(WSDDDeployment.java:242)       at 
org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:107)   at 
org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.configureEngine
(FileProvider.java:217)    at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.init
(AxisEngine.java:188)         at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.<init>
(AxisEngine.java:173)       at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.<init>
(AxisServer.java:127)        at 
org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.createServer
(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:152)      at 
org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.getServer
(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:116)         at 
org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.getServer(AxisServer.java:112)     at 
org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine
(AxisServletBase.java:221)