WSDL2Java Throws Could not find main class: org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java

Question

I am trying to create the java files from a remote webservice. I downloaded axis 1.4, copied the lib folder to c:\data\axis\lib which contains of these files:

• axis.jar
• axis-ant.jar
• commons-discovery-0.2.jar
• commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
• jaxrpc.jar
• log4j.properties
• log4j-1.2.8.jar
• saaj.jar
• wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar

I added the c:\data\axis\lib folder to the %AXISCLASSPATH%. Now I am trying to create the java classes using this cmd:

java -cp %AXISCLASSPATH% org.apache.wsdl.WSDL2JAVA http://myurl.com?wsdl

However I keep getting the following error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/axis/wsdl/
WSDL2Java
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java.  Program will exit.

Can someone help me to get this working?

Answer 1

Add the jars to the classpath individually if you're using a Java version before 6. If you're using Java 6, see here if you want to use wildcards.