Set up an example

This section helps you setting up a simple example:
download the dsexample.rar file. Unzip the file. You will find 4 .war files (ds-europe.war, ds-switzerland.war, ds-lausanne.war, ds-zurich.war ). Deploy the four of them on Apache Tomcat. Open your browser and enter the following URLs sequentially :

1.localhost:8080/ds-europe/wsdir?method=start
2.localhost:8080/ds-switzerland/wsdir?method=start
3.localhost:8080/ds-lausanne/wsdir?method=start
4.localhost:8080/ds-zurich/wsdir?method=start

For each ones, you will get an Axis message.
You can check the WSDL by entering the following URL : localhost:8080/ds-europe/wsdir?wsdl.
Then you can a the following link which is a JNLP simple client program (uses Java WebStart) that allows you to interact with the Federation.