Axis2 doesn't see any services when deployed in ear

Question

I have crated simple webservice with axis2 (1.4.1), without aar files, i have just "services.xml" in proper directory (WEB-INF/services/MyService/META-INF). After deploying WAR on Weblogic 8.1 service works without any issues and is visible on /listServices. When I use same WAR as a part of EAR I get next error:

"The service cannot be found for the endpoint reference (EPR)"

and /listServices is empty. Other servlets contained in WAR aren't affected and work same way when deployed as WAR or EAR.

Answer 1

Axis requires exploded WAR in EAR. However that won't work with WL 8.1, it throws an exception during deployment. I ended up modifying axis so it extracts war just before it starts searching for services - ugly hack but works flawlessly.