Axis Ant Tasks
Axis comes with Ant tasks to automate aspects of the
build process inside ant. To use these tasks, you need
- 
    Apache Ant 1.5.1 or later
- 
    The library axis-ant.jar which contains the tasks
- 
    All the main Axis libraries
Declaring the Tasks
 
To declare the tasks, set up a classpath to include the axis task JAR and 
all the dependent libraries. Including everything in the axis lib directory
should suffice  
<path id="axis.classpath">
  <fileset dir="${axis.home}/build/lib">
    <include name="**/*.jar" />
  </fileset>
</path>
Then use the <taskdef> declaration to declare all the tasks listed
in a properties file inside the  axis-ant.jar file: 
<taskdef resource="axis-tasks.properties"
  classpathref="axis.classpath" />
Creating Java files from WSDL
This uses the <axis-wsdl2java> task. 
  
<axis-wsdl2java
  output="${generated.dir}"
  testcase="true"
  verbose="true"
  url="${local.wsdl}" >
    <mapping
      namespace="http://axis.apache.org/ns/interop"
      package="interop" />
  </axis-wsdl2java>
 
The mapping elements are used to list the mappings from XML namespaces to 
Java packages; you can include as many as you need. 
 
Creating WSDL files from Java
This uses the <axis-java2wsdl> task. 
 
Talking to the admin service
 
This can be done with the 
<axis-admin> task. 
 
<axis-admin
    port="${target.port}"
    hostname="${target.server}"
    failonerror="true"
    servletpath="${target.appname}/services/AdminService"
    debug="true"
    xmlfile="${endpoint-stub.wsdd}"
    />
 Here the target.* properties are pulled from a properties file for the 
 system being deployed to, so a single build file can deploy to different
 systems with ease.