How to get started with axis1.4 urgent

[lingesh sagara]

hi friends,
i installed axis1.4. i have java1.5,tamcat6.0 and axis1.4.
when i am executing happyaxis.jsp i am getting the following output.
Needed Components

* Found SAAJ API ( javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\saaj.jar

* Found JAX-RPC API ( javax.xml.rpc.Service ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\jaxrpc.jar

* Found Apache-Axis ( org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\axis.jar

* Found Jakarta-Commons Discovery ( org.apache.commons.discovery.Resource ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-discovery-0.2.jar

* Found Jakarta-Commons Logging ( org.apache.commons.logging.Log ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar

* Found Log4j ( org.apache.log4j.Layout ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar

* Found IBM's WSDL4Java ( com.ibm.wsdl.factory.WSDLFactoryImpl ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar

* Found JAXP implementation ( javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory ) at an unknown location

* Found Activation API ( javax.activation.DataHandler ) at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\activation.jar

and when i am executing the sample example program "EchoHeader.jws" http://localhost:8080/axis/EchoHeaders.jws?method=list
i am getting following error SOAP message instead of correct one
soapenv:Envelope>
−
<soapenv:Body>
−
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
−
<faultstring>
java.lang.RuntimeException: No compiler found in your classpath! (you may need to add 'tools.jar')
</faultstring>
−
<detail>
<ns1:hostname>lingesh</ns1:hostname>
</detail>
</soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope

for WSDL "http://localhost:8080/axis/EchoHeaders.jws?wsdl"
AXIS error

Sorry, something seems to have gone wrong... here are the details:

Fault - ; nested exception is:
java.lang.RuntimeException: No compiler found in your classpath! (you may need to add 'tools.jar')

AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: java.lang.RuntimeException: No compiler found in your classpath! (you may need to add 'tools.jar')
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}hostname:lingesh
could anybody help me plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Simon Baker]

Hi,

I started using Axis1.4 some time ago, and it was my first foray into web services. I found the book Developing Web Services with Apache Axis (Ka Iok Tong) extremely helpful.

As a bit of an aside, I've now switched to Axis2 and have found it a whole lot easier to understand and use (and it apparently performs significantly better too).

Unless you have a specific need to avoid Axis2 I would suggest you at least take a look at it.

Cheers,
Simon