How to publish a Apache-Axis web service in tomcat 6.0

Question

I have developed a simple Apache-Axis java web service using Eclipse IDE and now it works successfully. I have generated test client also which provide by the IDE automatically. I can see that deployed web service is in the IDE server node when I expand it. (I have already added the tomcat 6.0 server to the Eclipse).

But the problem is that web service is up, only if I open the Eclipse and start the server from the Eclipse server tab. If I exit from the Eclipse, web service will be down. I want to know that how can I publish my web service permanently into the tomcat server and make it always up without opening the Eclipse IDE all the time?

thank you all in advance.

note: I just figure out the prob. when I deploy the war file, it has a different name comparing to actual web service project name in eclipse. I just open up the wsdl and get the actual url from it and type it on the address bar. then its worked !. thank u very much for your help. sorry for any inconvenience...

tomcat log file:

Sep 16, 2010 7:33:46 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener 
init
INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.20.
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:46 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:47 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:47 PM org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-8009
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:47 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1403 ms
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.26
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor host-manager.xml
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor manager.xml
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:49 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory beerV1
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:49 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory docs
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:49 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory examples
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:50 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:51 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:51 PM org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-8009
Sep 16, 2010 7:33:51 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 3259 ms
Sep 16, 2010 7:34:05 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive Server.war
Sep 16, 2010 7:34:06 PM org.apache.axis.utils.JavaUtils isAttachmentSupported
WARNING: Unable to find required classes (javax.activation.DataHandler and javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart). Attachment support is disabled.

Answer 1

Currently you are using Tomcat from Eclipse which will ofcourse shutdown as you close the eclipse.

Copy your war file in your tomcat/webapps/

and start tomcat /tomcat/bin/tomcat.exe [or .sh ]without depending on the eclipse

• Stop Tomcat.

• Delete existing deployment. If you have previously deployed "foo.war" in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps, then it has been unpacked into webapps/foo/... You must delete this directory and all its contents. On Unix, this can be done with rm -r $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/foo

• Copy WAR file to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/.

• Start Tomcat.