axistools-maven-plugin not generating source from WSDL - web-services

Question

I am using Apache Axis to generate the java source from my WSDL file. The maven run was successful without any errors but no generated classes.
Question: What am I missing here?
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>axistools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sourceDirectory>/src/main/resources</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>/src/main/java</outputDirectory>
<wsdlFiles>
<wsdlFile>thesourcewsdlfile.wsdl</wsdlFile>
</wsdlFiles>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
I am clearly not sure what is the problem with this configuration.

Answer 1

Try to define source and output directory bases on your maven project, that is, using standard maven properties to point to the right absolute path at runtime, changing your configuration as following:
<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/java</outputDirectory>
Based on this configuration, the thesourcewsdlfile.wsdl is supposed to be located under src/main/resources/thesourcewsdlfile.wsdl
The full plugin configuration should hence be:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>axistools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/java</outputDirectory>
<wsdlFiles>
<wsdlFile>thesourcewsdlfile.wsdl</wsdlFile>
</wsdlFiles>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Moreover, the following dependencies must be added to the project:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.axis</groupId>
<artifactId>axis</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxrpc-api</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
As a general note, it would be much better to place generated sources under the target directory, since they are generated automatically and should not be added to the version control in use. A standard location would then be any desired (meaningful) directory under ${project.build.directory}/generated-sources (where ${project.build.directory} is the standard property pointing to the target directory indeed).

Answer 2

IMHO you are missing the wsdl folder under resources, just add it and run:
mvn clean generate-sources