To run the stock samples, you must do the following: 1. Set up your CLASSPATH. 2. Start a server. 3. Deploy the service. 4. Run the samples. 1. Set up your CLASSPATH. The CLASSPATH must contain: an XML parser (ie., Xerces), JUnit (www.junit.org), all the jars in the lib directory, and the directory containing the samples subdirectory. 2. Start a server. To run the sample, you will first need to run a server. To run a very simple server you could run, in a separate window: java org.apache.axis.transport.http.SimpleAxisServer -p 8080 3. Deploy the service. To deploy the service, be sure you're in the JAX-RPC samples directory (samples/stock), then run: java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient deploy.wsdd 4. Run the samples. Run the GetInfo sample: java samples.stock.GetInfo where is one of "IBM", "ALLR" (Allaire), or "CSCO" (Cisco) (these are the only symbols this sample supports) and is one of "symbol", "name", or "address". Here's a simple, explicit example: java samples.stock.GetInfo IBM address This should result in the following output: IBM: Armonk, NY Run the GetQuote sample: java samples.stock.GetQuote [options] options: -d turn on debugging - more 'd means more info -h server host name -l ie. http://localhost:80/axis/servlet/AxisServlet -p server port number -s ie. axis/servlet/AxisServlet -u user-id -w password If you use the authorization and authentication handlers (which the given deploy.wsdd does) you'll need to add a couple of files to your Servlet Engine's current dir: users.lst - list of users and passwords The access control list for the authorization handler is located in the deploy.wsdd file. the 'allowedRoles' parameter is used to specify the users who have the karma required to access the service. If you are running the SimpleAxisServer, this means that these files must be in the directory from which that program is run. The easiest thing to do is to cd to samples/stock and run SimpleAxisServer from there. Here's an explicit example of running GetQuote using these files: java samples.stock.GetQuote -uuser1 -wpass1 XXX This should result in the following output: XXX: 55.25 Run the GetQuote1 sample: java samples.stock.GetQuote1 -uuser -wpass1 XXX GetQuote1 does the same thing that GetQuote does, but it shows how to make the call with and without the GetQuote.wsdl file.