AXIS error: There is no SOAP service at this location

Question

Note: I could not find a straight-forward answer to this problem so I will document my solution below as an answer.

I generated the server-side part

Answer 1

You better build the server-config.wsdd automatically with the goal "admin". See the documentation about this plugin:

http://mojo.codehaus.org/axistools-maven-plugin/admin-mojo.html

It is very difficult to generate the server-config.wsdd manually.

Example:

            
                
                    org.codehaus.mojo
                    axistools-maven-plugin
                    1.3

                    

                        ${project.artifactId}.wsdl
                        http://server.ws.xxx
                        http://server.ws.xxx
                        XXXWebService
                        http://localhost:8080/XX/services/XXXWebService
                        XXServiceSoapBinding
                        
                        literal


                        
                            ${basedir}\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\xxxx\deploy.wsdd
                            ${basedir}\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\xxxx\deploy.wsdd
                        
                    true
                

                    
                    
                        
                            
                                java2wsdl
                                admin
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            axis
                            axis
                            1.3