Setting up environment for development

This is the most time consuming section , specially for a new user , I will try to reduce your time as much as possible.Ok lets start then :

I am assuming you know about Eclipse if not then do explore about it , a developer should know it :).

JDK Installation

• First of all install JDK into the system. Please install this one correctly as all other tools will use this . After installing check in computer properties , environment variables list that following parameters are there :

JAVA_HOME: Directory path where u install JDK

Path : JAVA_HOME/bin folder of JDK

Example

JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_17

PATH=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_17\bin\

I believe you need to set the JAVA_HOME variable yourself.

To know how to set environment variables see here

Eclipse Installation

• Now lets install Eclipse into your system. Just extract the zipped files into your harddrive and installation done.
• Now lets install the the two plugins(last two tools in the list ) we downloaded . Just go to plugins folder of Eclipse and extract the zipped file of plugin there.
• Lets see if plugins are installed correctly .

Run eclipse.exe

Open New->other->Axis2 , if this option is present then plugins installed correctly

Axis2Binary Installation

• Unzip the downloaded zipped file into desired location
• This step is optional and perform only if you want to use inbuilt tools of axis .

Set a environment variable with name as AXIS_HOME= directory url where u unzipped the axis binary files

example

AXIS_HOME=C:\axis2

TomCat Server

• Just run the setup file included in the zipped folder
• Go to bin folder and start server
• Visit link http://localhost:8080 to check the installation

Configuring Axis 2 with Tomcat Server

• Copy the Axis 2 WAR distribution file into the webapp folder of tomcat home directory
• Restart the Tomcat Server
• In browser visit http://localhost:8080 /axis2 and you should see axis2 home page if everything is installed correctly
• Click on validate installation to Validate your axis2 integration

Note: If you want to create the war file from axis2 binary distribution then follow following steps

Go to axis to binary distribution folder search for axis-web folder

Build.xml file will be present there

Open Build.xml in Eclipse.exe

Click on Run button in eclipse

The war file will be created in axis2 binary home directory/dist folder

Now we are all ready to start Coding :).