Single-Step Deployment

[Jim Dibble]

Is it possible to deploy a web service without sending a message to the axis servlet?  In effect, I would like to place my compiled classes and my deployment information (the info in the deploy.wsdd file) into my Tomcat directory structure, and have the web service work without having to send the axis servlet a message from the org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient.  I notice that the servlet creates the server-config.wsdd file once I send my deploy.wsdd file, and that this file contains the metadata about the deployed web service.  Could I hand-code a server-config.wsdd file and place it directly in the WEB-INF directory at startup?   Note that the instant deployment solution (.jws files) is not sufficient for my needs because (1) I need to do some XML-to-Java mapping that can only be accomplished in the deploy.wsdd file and (2) I don’t want the overhead of compilation on the first call to the web service.