Project and deployment structure.

Project structure.

Project structure is typical for maven.

src/main/java – java code. I have here classe with business logic implementation.
src/main/resources – contains service descriptor (services.xml), wsdl (service.wsdl) and schema (schema.xsd)

src/gen – all generated classes and xml is here

gen-unused – I moved here generated skeleton class during build process. On first run I copy from here generated skeleton class and move to src/main/java and implement business  logic. This prevents replace of skeleton during build run. If changes touche the skeleton  I rather update it manually.

Deployment structure.

During project build jar file created. It contains all web service classes. Deployment descriptor file service.xml comes to WEB-INF\services\service\META_INF catalog inside war file together with wsdl, and schema.  service.jar is in WEB_INF\lib.

web.xml contains axis servlet

<!-- Axis2 webservice servlet -->
<servlet>
        <servlet-name>AxisServlet</servlet-name>
	<servlet-class>org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet</servlet-class>
	<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
	<servlet-name>AxisServlet</servlet-name>
	<url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<!-- Axis2 webservice servlet -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>AxisServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>AxisServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>