Update WebAPI to Axis 2 (1.6)

I'd like to make a request for the WebAPI service to be updated to Apache Axis 2.  The current platform (Apache 1.4) is 7 years old, and we are trying to use Apache Axis 2 to integrate with other custom 3rd-party web services from within RollBase.

We are finding that the two sets of libraries are causing compatibility issues.  For instance, with the Apache Axis 2 libraries installed using the latest binary (2.0.0.4), the following error occurs when the WEBAPI server attempts to start up:

Dec 12, 2013 6:27:08 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext loadOnStartup
SEVERE: Servlet /webapi threw load() exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis.description.FieldDesc
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils$2.run(ClassUtils.java:177)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils.loadClass(ClassUtils.java:160)
at org.apache.axis.utils.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:100)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDTypeMapping.getLanguageSpecificType(WSDDTypeMapping.java:183)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.deployTypeMapping(WSDDService.java:542)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.initTMR(WSDDService.java:253)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDService.<init>(WSDDService.java:233)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployment.<init>(WSDDDeployment.java:192)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.setDocument(WSDDDocument.java:139)
at org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDocument.<init>(WSDDDocument.java:65)
at org.apache.axis.configuration.FileProvider.configureEngine(FileProvider.java:179)
at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.init(AxisEngine.java:172)
at org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.<init>(AxisEngine.java:156)
at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.<init>(AxisServer.java:88)
at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.createServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:109)
at org.apache.axis.server.DefaultAxisServerFactory.getServer(DefaultAxisServerFactory.java:73)
at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.getServer(AxisServer.java:73)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getEngine(AxisServletBase.java:185)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.getOption(AxisServletBase.java:396)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.init(AxisServletBase.java:112)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1280)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1088)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5176)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5460)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:983)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1660)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)