axis: Servlet AxisServlet is currently unavailable

Jeg har forsøgt at installere axis og køre det simple CalcClient fra \axis\WEB-INF\classes\samples\userguide\example2, men der kommer hele tiden en exception
Exception in thread "main" Servlet AxisServlet is currently unavailable
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at samples.userguide.example2.CalcClient.main(Unknown Source)

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