We could use a deployment descriptor to deploy a service inside the axis webapp (where the JWS example ran) but just to do something a little more illustrative we'll put the deployment descriptor example in its own webapp. A webapp, for the uninitiated, is the basic Java web application unit, it has a directory structure that separates the classes and libraries into distinct locations from display elements. We can create a standalone SOAP service, in a standalone webapp, by putting our class in the classes directory and the libraries we depend on in the lib directory.

We begin by creating a stand-alone webapp file system hierarchy

hello/WEB-INF
    web.xml
    attachments/  
    classes/
        HelloServer.class
    lib/
        axis.jar
        jaxrpc.jar
        saaj.jar
        wsdl4j.jar
        commons-logging.jar
        log4j-1.2.4.jar
        tt-bytecode.jar