Configure Advanced Axis Settings from Eclipse

Occasionally you may need to configure advanced Axis settings from Eclipse. Some common reasons for this are:

• You need to increase or disable the Axis timeout if you are trying to consume a very large or complex web service.
  
  
• You need to generate code for all elements, even unreferenced ones.
  
  

To access these settings, follow these instructions:

1. Click Window -> Preferences from the Eclipse menu bar.
   
   
2. Expand the Web Services node and then select Axis Emitter in the tree view located in the left pane.
   
   

You should see the Axis Emitter screen which contains a variety of options for both Wsdl2Java and Java2Wsdl. These settings are workspace specific so you will need to redefine them again if you switch workspaces. From this screen you can check the "Generate code for all elements, even unreferenced ones" checkbox, and you can set the "Timeout in seconds" to -1 to disable it (see screenshot below).

At the time of writing this tutorial I am using Eclipse Helios with the J2EE extensions installed; options may vary slightly if using a different version.