Installing Axis on WebSphere 5.x
Hi, I am trying to install Axis on WebSphere 5.x, but it seems to load the (XML Parser) classes that come with WebSphere instead of loading the classes in the web apps's WEB-INF/lib directory .

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This issue is discussed pretty thoroughly on the Axis-user discussion list. You need to make sure that you remove the WebSphere parser classes from your classpath.

This was first published in April 2005