----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Jehu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "axis user mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:13 PM Subject: pass by reference in Axis
> Is it possible to pass a remote reference using SOAP and Axis? I would like > to establish a publisher-subscriber style relationship between a client > (which implements a listener interface) and an Axis web service. > > I have created the web service class, event class (Serializable) and event > listener interface (modeled on SWING) but WSDL2Java creates a class for the > listener interface when I really need to pass a reference to the client for > the service to call when events occur. > > Also is it possible to operate in the other direction, could a web service > create a new object which it passes as a remote reference to the client and > if so how could you do it? do you meant that you want to do callbacks from a SOAP service to the client? If that is the case there is no easy solution at all, not one that works over HTTP and through firewalls and things. You need polling, or different transports like STMP somewhere in the solution.