Creating .aar file of service

Important Note : There is a bug in service archiver 1.3 version , and its still(as on 4th june 2010) open issue , there is workaround for this bug which is to do some deletion before starting Eclipse , read below for proper steps :

We will use Axis2 service archiver tool for this.

• Go to your workspace folder which Eclipse creates , You will see a metadata folder there , go to metadata>plugins>servicearchiver>, and delete the file present in it.[if you are opening Eclipse for the first time then no need for this step]
  
• Open Eclipse from command line using syntax given below

EclipseHomeDirectoryPath\eclipse.exe -clean -console -consoleLog -debug -vmargs -Xmx384M

Example:

C:\Eclipse3311\eclipse\eclipse.exe -clean -console -consoleLog -debug -vmargs -Xmx384M

• Now Select the New->Other->Axis2 wizards->Axis2 Service Archiver
• Browse the location of the class file TestService.class we generated in second section , it must be present in project folder ->bin folder.
• Click on next
• Browse WSDL file we created and click on next
• In general if your class depends on some libraries then include those libraries now , in our case we dont need any other library so click on next
• If you have custom services.xml file then browse it here otherwise , for our example we will create services.xml file automatically so select Generate services.xml automatically click on next .
• Now give the service name and class name as follow

ServiceName : TestService

Class Name : webservice1.TestService

• Click on load , if filepath was given correctly then class should low and u should see serviceFunction() in the table
• Click on next
• Browse the output location, select Project folder(or any folder of your choice)
• Give file name as TestService
• Click on finish

You will get two files TestService.aar and build.xml in the location you selected.