By default Axis2 services are available on http://host:8080/axis2/services/*. If you want to remove axis2/services part from the service endpoint and access your service by http://host:8080/serviceName/* 1. Overide default Axis2 servlet mapping services in web.xml file. AxisServlet /serviceName/* 2. Remove an application name value by deploying axis2 implementation (from war distribution axis2-1.X.X-war.zip ) as ROOT application. Info: War distribution contains application with above structure: axis2-web META-INF org WEB-INF classes conf lib modules services put here *.aar files to deploy WS web.xml (manually created) web.xml file Apache-Axis2 AxisServlet Apache-Axis Servlet org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet 1 AxisAdminServlet Apache-Axis AxisAdmin Se