The java configurator located under org.policy.config is a powerful way of intializing a system. In addition, it is possible to load the application with different properties and even with a completely different functionality without having to recompile the code. This HOW-TO describes how this configurator can be used.
The Fat Jar Eclipse Plug-In is a Deployment-Tool which deploys an Eclipse java-project into one executable jar.
It adds the Entry "Build Fat-JAR" to the Export-Wizard.
In addition to the eclipse standard jar-exporter referenced classes and jars are included to the "Fat-Jar", so the resulting jar contains all needed classes and can be executed directly with "java -jar", no classpath has to be set, no additional jars have to be deployed.
Axis2: Why bother? The Axis team is kicking up a big fuss about their recent release of Axis 2 (1.0!) Surprisingly, this library is so so abysmally bad, that I have yet to find someone who has managed to successfully use it.