Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind. Thanks for the help on this. ...couple of clarifications, is there any way for the init method to be called by Axis at startup instead of the client? Our web service is a daemon and I would like the init to be called when the system boots rather than at the first client call.
Thanks much! -dh -----Original Message----- From: Juha Kononen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Axis - setup/teardown notification? I'm not sure are we talking about the same thing, but I suggest you implement, for example, an 'init' method, in addition to your service method. Put all your initialization code in the init method as well as the initialization message that you are going to send back to a client. Then invoke your web service with the init method instead of the service method. Now you have initialized your web service before its use and you have got the initialization message. I recommend to use the session mechanism, because then Axis creates only one service object per a client and reuses the service object for the length of the session. Without the session Axis creates and destroys your service object every time you call it. However, when you want to make some cleanup before the destruction of the service object, you can do it by implementing the destroy method from the javax.xml.rpc.server.ServiceLifecycle interface in your service object. The Axis engine calls destroy() either at shutdown, when a session expires, or at the end of a request. You may try to put a message in the destroy method and check whether you get it from the server, but I'm not sure does it work because I haven't test it. Juha >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13 4:13 >>> Does Axis provide any mechanism to notify web services that they are starting and/or stopping? I would like to provide some resource initialization when my web service has started and provide some resource cleanup when it is being stopped for any reason. What is the preferred way to do this? -dh
