Tomcat used to automagically reload my classes when I compiled. This does no
more work with Axis 1.0 (by the way, there is not version entry '1.0' for Axis
in Bugzilla).

The reason is that the destroying of the servlet fails. Stack trace:
2002-10-16 09:48:46 - Ctx(/axis) : Error in destroy -
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:380)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.setAttribute(Context.java:792)
at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletContextFacade.setAttribute
(ServletContextFacade.java:121)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.storeEngine
(AxisServletBase.java:238)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.destroy
(AxisServletBase.java:174)
at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doDestroy
(ServletHandler.java:379)

Fix: change the following method in
org/apache/axis/transport/http/AxisServletBase.java from:
//>>> old
    private static void storeEngine(ServletContext context, AxisServer engine) {
        context.setAttribute(ATTR_AXIS_ENGINE, engine);
    }
//<<< old

to this:

//>>> new
    private static void storeEngine(ServletContext context, AxisServer engine) {
        if (engine == null) {
            context.removeAttribute(ATTR_AXIS_ENGINE);
        } else {
            context.setAttribute(ATTR_AXIS_ENGINE, engine);
        }
    }
//<<< new