Galera acabei de jogar a pasta axis dentro da pasta webapps do meu tomcat que está instalado em uma maquina com linux, o problema ocorre na hora de eu validar, falta um arquivo.
Needed Components
Found SAAJ API ( javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage ) at /opt/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/saaj.jar
Found JAX-RPC API ( javax.xml.rpc.Service ) at /opt/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/jaxrpc.jar
Found Apache-Axis ( org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet ) at /opt/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/axis.jar
Found Jakarta-Commons Discovery ( org.apache.commons.discovery.Resource ) at /opt/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar
Found Jakarta-Commons Logging ( org.apache.commons.logging.Log ) at /opt/tomcat/bin/commons-logging-api-1.1.1.jar
Found Log4j ( org.apache.log4j.Layout ) at /opt/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar
Found IBM's WSDL4Java ( com.ibm.wsdl.factory.WSDLFactoryImpl ) at /opt/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
Found JAXP implementation ( javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory ) at an unknown location
Error: could not find class javax.activation.DataHandler from file activation.jar
Axis will not work.
See http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html
já no windows funcionou normalmente.