How does a module add services along with the module archive file?

Q: How does a module add services along with module archive file in Apache Axis2? A: A module can add services when they deploy in Axis2. Module mar file can contain any number of service archive files. So when the module is present in modules directory Axis2 will make all the available services in it (if there are any). This is somewhat similar to module adding operations, but the difference being that you can put services archive files. Any of the libs or resources available in a module is visible to the services, because parent class loader of all the services in a module are module class loaders. How do you add module services:

• You need to add folder called "aars" in the same level as META-INF
• Need to list all the services in module archive file adding aars.list
• Then put all the services archives files into "aars"

So module with services will look like below:

myModule.mar
   META-INF
     module.xml
  org
        apache
  lib
  aars
    aars.list
    service1.aar
    service2.aar

The corresponding aars.list file will look like below:

    service1.aar
    service2.aar

Applies To:

Apache Axis2/Java versions/nightly builds above 1.0