Hi, Try to use scope="Application" instead of scope="session". To set this option use -d in WSDL2Java
Hope this help us Jean Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:31 PM Subject: service instances > Hello, > > I've just created and deployed a simple web service using Axis. > > Each time I call the web service, a new instance of the class > implementing my web service is created. > > Is there any way of controlling this behaviour ? I mean, is it possible > to have one instance per request (current behaviour), or one instance per > server, a pool of instances ... > > My web service needs to access a database. So, I would like to maintain > a persistent connection to the database. I could use a singleton or > a static member but it would take some time when processing the first > request. Is is possible to tell Axis to pre-load some classes when it > starts up to avoid latency with the first request ? > > Thank you for your help, > > Tom. > >