Axis2/C - Installation

Links

• http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/

• Mailing List - User

Download

• Download axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32.zip from http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/.

• Download libxml2-2.6.27.win32 from http://www.xmlsoft.org. Actually had to download libxml2-2.6.27.win32.zip from SourceForge, dia Win32 Installer download site.

• Download iconv-1.9.1.win32 from http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/. Actually downloaded libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip from ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/libiconv

• Download zlib-1.2.3.win32 from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/. Acually downloaded zlib123-dll.zip.

Install

Extract axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32.zip. I installed to:

C:\bin\axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32\

• Extract libxml2.dll from the bin folder of libxml2-2.6.27.win32.zip.

• Extract iconv.dll from the lib folder of libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip.

• Extract zlib1.dll from zlib123-dll.zip.

Copy libxml2.dll, iconv.dll and zlib1.dll to the lib folder of the axis2c installation:

C:\bin\axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32\lib\

Set a couple of environment variables:

set AXIS2C_HOME=C:\bin\axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32
set PATH=%PATH%;%AXIS2C_HOME%\lib

Start

Start the server:

cd C:\bin\axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32\bin\
axis2_http_server.exe

Test

• To list available services:

  http://localhost:9090/axis2/services

• To run a sample client (from a new command window):

  set AXIS2C_HOME=C:\bin\axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32
  set PATH=%PATH%;%AXIS2C_HOME%\lib
  cd C:\bin\axis2c-bin-1.1.0-win32\bin\samples\
  math