The flexibility and extensibility of Axis2 is focused on its deployment descriptors as well. Rather than working with one configuration file, Axis2 has different configuration files for different levels of configuration. For example, let's say that you want to have different types of configuration for different levels; then, having multiple configuration files for different levels solves the problem for you. There are three types of descriptors or configuration files in Axis2, namely:
Global descriptor (
axis2.xml
)Service descriptor (
services.xml
)Module descriptor (
module.xml
)
As mentioned earlier, the configuration in Axis2 can be specified using XML descriptors. This gives you much more flexibility for extending and changing Axis2. No need to go and change the code to have a different configuration. Even for core functionality, it's the same. If you consider Axis2's global configuration file—axis2.xml
—it has all the minimal configurations...