Soap under Java 1.3 with Axis

Question

I am writing a Java web service for legacy SCO machines (which only have Java 1.3 available). I have been able to get more recently-added XML parsing functions integrated by including the Xerces jar on my classpath. However Java is screaming about not being able to find javax.xml.soap, even though I've got Axis 1.3 and explicitly added axis2-saaj-1.3.jar (which claims to include javax.xml.soap.*)

Nonetheless, it tells me that package javax.xml.soap doesn't exist. I know it wasn't in the SDK under Java 1.3, but a compatible version is on my freaking classpath! Can anyone tell me what might be going on here?

Answer 1

If you have the downloaded distribution try using the saaj.jar in that instead of the axis2-saaj-1.3.jar distributable.