You can download Axis from http://ws.apache.org/axis/releases.html. Currently, the latest release of Axis is Release Candidate 2 of Axis 1.1. So I downloaded a file called axis-1_1rc2.zip. This 10.1MB .zip file would take about 50 minutes to download through a 33Kbps modem. The file contains one directory called axis-1_1RC2. I unzipped this to:

e:\

so all the files are in the directory:

e:\axis-1_1RC2

As the .zip file is a 10.1MB file, the unzipping takes a long time.

The details about how to get Axis to work are in the Axis Installation Guide. This is available at:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/xml-axis/java/docs/install.html
The first thing to do is to copy the axis subdirectory of:

e:\axis-1_1RC2\webapps 

to:

%CATALINA_HOME%\webapps

The Axis Installation Guide then suggests that you copy some XML parser files. I found that I did not have to do this step. However, if you need to do this, the Axis Installation Guide says that the XML parser files need to be put into the directory:

%CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib

As the full distribution of tomcat comes with an XML parser, you could copy those files: so you could copy the files xercesImpl.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar from:

%CATALINA_HOME%\common\endorsed

to:

%CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib

The final step of installing Axis is to restart tomcat.