Axis2 is used for making and using WebService.
The latest version of AXIS2 can be downloaded from the URL below:
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/
The current AXIS2 version of 1.6.2 is used in this article. Readers can download the following two zip packages:
Axis2-1.6.2-bin.zip
Axis2-1.6.2-war.zip
The Axis2-1.6.2-bin.zip file contains all the jar files in Axis2, and axis2-1.6.2-war.zip files are used to publish WebService to the Web container.
Extract the Axis2-1.6.2-war.zip file to the appropriate directory, place the Axis2.war file in the directory in the <tomcat installation directory >\webapps directory (the Tomcat version used in this article is 8.0), and start Tomcat.
In the browser address bar, enter the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/axis2/
If you display a page in the browser as shown in Figure 1, the AXIS2 installation is successful.