Note that there's some pretty funky stuff with commons-logging.jar
with class loaders.
I removed this jar from my classpath and literally inserted the
org.apache.commons.logging and
org.apache.commons.logging.impl packages into my src dir
commons-logging.jar -> very complex thingamajig - but its used
inside axis

Also, Axis does some classLoading stuff with org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils
I had to hack up this file so that getClassLoader returns the defaultClassLoader:
  public static ClassLoader getClassLoader(String className) {
        return defaultClassLoader;
    }