Prerequisites

To check your Java version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  java -version

  The command response should be similar to the following:

  java version "1.4.2"
  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28)
  Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-b28, mixed mode)
  

To set up Apache Axis 1.4

1. Unpack the Apache Axis distribution. Remember the location of the Axis directory.

2. Add the Axis jars and lib directory to your Java classpath. How to do this depends on your operating system.

   For example, in a Linux command shell such as Bash, the following commands add the Axis 1.4 jars and lib directory to your CLASSPATH environment variable:

   export AXIS_PATH=/path/to/ApacheAxis
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/axis.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/jaxrpc.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/saaj.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar:$CLASSPATH
   export CLASSPATH=$AXIS_PATH/lib/:$CLASSPATH
   

3. Enter the following command at a command prompt to verify your Apache Axis installation:

   java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java -h

   If Apache Axis is installed correctly, the command will print information about using Axis's WSDL2Java utility.

To check your Microsoft Visual C# and .NET Framework versions

1. Open Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition.

2. Select the Help menu, About Microsoft Visual Studio.

3. Verify that the dialog box that opens lists Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and .NET Framework version 2.0.

To check your Perl version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  perl -version

  The command response should begin with something similar to the following:

  This is perl, v5.8.6 built for Linux-2.4c2.3-i686-64int
  ...

To check that the required Perl modules are installed

• Enter the following 5 commands at a command prompt:

  perl -MDate::Format -e 1
  perl -MDigest::HMAC_SHA1 -e 1
  perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 1
  perl -MLWP -e 1
  perl -MXML::XPath -e 1
  

  If none of the commands respond with errors, then all of the modules are installed.

To check your PHP version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  php -v

  The command response should be similar to the following:

  PHP 5.1.6 (cgi) (built: Oct  5 2006 15:01:19)
  Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
  Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
  

To check your Python version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  python -V

  The command response should be similar to the following:

  Python 2.4

To check your Python version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  python -V

  The command response should be similar to the following:

  Python 2.4

To check that SOAPpy is installed

1. Run Python in interactive mode:

   python

2. Attempt to import the SOAPpy library:

   >>> import SOAPpy

   If you do not see an "ImportError," then SOAPpy is installed. You can check which version of SOAPpy is installed by examining the __version__:

   >>> SOAPpy.__version__
   '0.11.5'

To check your Ruby version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  ruby -v

  The command response should be similar to the following:

  ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux]

To check your Ruby version

• Enter the following command at a command prompt:

  ruby -v

  The command response should be similar to the following:

  ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux]