What is Axis and services provided by Axis ?

Apache eXtensible Interaction System (AXIS)

• An open source web service toolkit for Java
• A complete framework for developing and assessing Web Services.
• It is essentially a SOAP engine.
  It is an implemetation of SOAP which provides abstarction from dealing with SOAP and WSDL directly.
• It provides a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, etc.

What Axis contains ?

Axis isn't just a SOAP engine. It also includes :

• A simple standalone server.
• A server which plugs into servlet engines such as Tomcat.
• extensive support for the Web Service Description Language (WSDL)
• emitter tooling that generates Java classes from WSDL
• some sample programs, and a tool for monitoring TCP/IP packets.

Services provided by AXIS

A SOAP engine that accepts and responds SOAP messages.

This is deployed as a Web Application on a Web / Application server.

AdminService : A Web service comes by default in AXIS that helps in deploying/ undeploying another Web Services.

Axis Servlet : A Servlet deployed in AXIS that helps in Calling of another Web Services API to Access and call any web service (This internally uses javax.xml.rpc)

org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient : Tool to deploy a piece of code as web service into the Soap Engine.

org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java : Tool to generate java stub from a WSDL file.

org.apache.axis.wsdl.Java2WSDL : Tool to generate a WSDL file from a java class or interface.