Web Service Deployment Error in Eclipse with Axis2 and Tomcat7 Server

[Nirav Khandhedia]

I am new to web services and trying to create one simple project using Bottom-Up methodology.

I am using axis2-1.6.2 with apache-tomcat-7.0.28 for my project.

I have created one simple class SayHi.java having a method as below.

public String sayHi(String name)

When I am trying to create WebService from this class, it starts the server succssfully as can be seen from the below screen capture, but not able to deploy the web service on it.

Below are primary observations:

1. Web.xml is updated with Axis2 Servlet Information
2. The project has been added to the server and the server state is started.
3. My server is running on port number 8080 (and it is started as well!), so I am trying to ping

http://localhost:8080

but response is

The requested resource (/) is not available

. and hence of course

http://localhost:8080/WebProj/services/AdminService

is not showing any info.
As I am not able to post Screen capture here, I have uploaded it on my blog at below link, please check http://khandhedia.blogspot.in/2012/06/webservice-deployment-error-on-eclipse.html

Can I have some solution to this please?

[Ulf Dittmer]

It's hard to say what influence the IDE has on this. I generally advise to run the server outside of the IDE (because there will be no IDE in a production setting, so you need to know how to make it work without one). Aren't there any error message sin the log files?

[Nirav Khandhedia]

Actually, when I am trying to start the server from Explorer (Command Prompt), i.e. not from IDE.. it shows below error

C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.28\bin>tomcat7.exe
[2012-06-26 10:20:12] [warn] The system cannot find the Registry key for service 'tomcat7'
[2012-06-26 10:20:12] [error] Load configuration failed
[2012-06-26 10:20:12] [error] The system cannot find the file specified.
[2012-06-26 10:20:12] [error] Commons Daemon procrun failed with exit value: 2 (Failed to load configuration)
[2012-06-26 10:20:12] [error] The system cannot find the file specified.

But when I am trying to start from Eclipse, it shows STARTED.

However, when I hit : http://localhost:8080 it doesn't respond.

[Nirav Khandhedia]

This is the error in Eclipse.

[Ulf Dittmer]

I'm not familiar with the exe, or with the Windows service version of Tomcat; I find it easier to use the various scripts in the bin directory.

The image just shows that Tomcat (or the target web app) is apparently not running.

Theses forums have an attachment feature, by the way, that lets you add images to posts without the need for external hosting.

[Nirav Khandhedia]

Thanks for the reply.

There were some problems with Tomcat7 installation. I re-installed it and from Explorer/Command prompt I am able to start the server and see the home screen.

However, while deploying web service through eclipse, it gives below error.

IWAB0489E Error when deploying Web service to Axis runtime
  axis-admin failed with  {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HTTP (400)Bad Request

Any solution to this? Or how can I deploy without using Eclipse? Any quick guide or tutorial?