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trouble creating an axis 2 .aar file: xml/services not found error

I am trying to create an aar file using OSX 10.7.5 (as a part of this tutorial). To generate the .aar, I navigate to the directory holding my webservice in my eclipse workspace and type

jar cvf FirstWebService.aar ./*

This is the command that Apache says to use to generate the aar in their Code Listing 9 from the apache axis 2 documentation.

The command creates an.aar -- but something is wrong with the process that I am using to create the .aar because when I go to load the .aar file into tomcat's /webapps I get an .xml/services not found error.

I am not sure what to do to fix this error. If I search my computer's file system for the services.xml file, I can find it in /path to eclipse workspace/workspace/MyFirstWebService/WebContent/WEB-INF/services/FirstWebService/META-INF but I am not sure if this file is supposed to be rolled in to the .aar file somehow or if I can just manually plunk this file somewhere into the apache directory structure to get the thing to run.

Note: I do not think I am manually unzipping or unpacking the aar like in this question. Axis2 web service error: services.xml not found I am just running the command listed above from the apache documentation.

Here is the .aar file

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note I am using all of the same versions of the software as in the tutorial -- but I am using OSX 10.7.5 where they use windows in the tutorial. Accordingly, I have changed the make-aar command for windows shown in the tutorial (jar cvf FirstWebService.aar com META-INF) into the one shown above. If I just try to run the command from the tutorial jar cvf FirstWebService.aar com META-INF I get the same xml/services not found error. It gives this output in the terminal...

com: no such file or directory
META-INF: no such file or directory
added manifest
Solution

  • I found the issue. When you type the command to create the aar file you have to be in the directory .../EclipseWorkspace/EclipseProjectName/WebContent/WEB-INF/services. This directory contains /META-INF/services.xml. The process that makes the .aar file must be looking in this folder.