Apache Axis2 is a Web Services / SOAP / WSDL engine, the successor to the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack.
Number of users have requested to have a way to enable/disable service listing in Axis2. What that means is, by default Axis2 list out all the service in the system when you go the following URL;
http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/listServices
However there are situation where we do not need to expose our services publicly, in such a situation following would comes handy.
To enable/disable service listing use following parameter in axis2.xml (WEB-INF/con/axis2.xml).
< parameter name="disableServiceList">true
True – Disable
False -Enable
Adding this does not prevent listing service under administration window, to stop it, you need to change the default username and password. You can do that by changing the following two paramters.
< parameter name="userName">admin
< parameter name="password">axis2