A simple deployment descriptor

• names the service
• specifies what provider type it is (java MSG or RPC)
• what class represents the service
• what methods should be exposed.

The AdminClient is a tool that comes with Axis (this command line assumes that the Axis jars are in your classpath). It will generate the runtime metadata description that Axis needs for its services in a file, server-config.xml (whose file format we're not interested in). The webapp assembly, service deployment and webapp deployment are scripted in the supplied example source code.