Apache Axis is a SOAP engine, defined on the official Apache Axis web site (http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/install.html) as "a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, etc". Axis runs as several servlets, while the BEA WebLogic application server provides the Web container for these Axis servlets. Conceptually, consider this environment as a BEA WebLogic server with Axis service support.
When Axis is installed according to the basic Axis installation instructions (see the Apache Axis web site for more information about basic and advanced installation options), Axis is deployed as a Web application to the Web container in either an exploded directory or a packaged war file, for example axis.war.
You deploy your services into this Axis web application by adding new classes and registering the new service into the Axis web application. The Axis data collector, when enabled for the Axis web application, monitors these services. If you deploy additional services after the Axis data collector is enabled for data collection, the newly deployed services are monitored automatically.
Message logging and message rejection are supported in the same manner as the BEA WebLogic Server data collector.