Robert, > Is there a known way to use the AdminClient without first starting Tomcat > (or whatever servlet container is hosting the Axis webservice)?
deployment of web services in axis needs two parts: - make the classes available in the servers class path (which is done in your first step) - fill in the needed entries into server-config.wsdd (this is what AdminClient realy does) You may try the following to achieve deployment without a running servlet engine: Use AdminClient and specify a "local:" scheme in the -l option instead of the "http:" scheme. Look into java/tests/functional/TestTransportSample.java for an example. This creates an Axis engine inside the calling process and writes a server-config.wsdd file into the curent working directory. Just try to copy this file to your WEB-INF/ directory. By, Uli
