A little Axis tip
This article by Kevin Jones, linked from the Apache site, shows how to get Axis to return the given WSDL file for a service, rather than rely on Axis to auto-generate new WSDL from a deployed service. Kevin’s tip essentially is to add:
<wsdlFile>your wsdl file here</wsdlFile>
to the server-config.wsdd file. It turns out that you can put the same
element in the service’s own deploy.wsdd file, and it will be copied from
there to server-config - saving you the trouble of finding and tweaking the
server configuration. The ony gotcha is that if you re-generate the depoy.wsdd
(via wsdl2java), the wsdlFile element will be overwritten. I guess it would be
nice if wsdl2java acquired a new command line option to generate the wsdlFile
element.