Look at also using WSIF (Web Services Invocation Framework). It will allow a dynamic binding to occur - so your calls will go over SOAP (Axis) when needed, and locally when that is all that is needed.
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:19:14 +0100, Alex Dovlecel wrote > hello all, > > I know this subject was debated some days ago. I have tried to > follow the thread and was pretty interesting. But I haven't found > anything about this: > > My web app (that will incorporate the axis), when calling an axis > server, should not encode the call in an axis envelope and send it > to localhost but just to call the method. Or somehow to invoke the > chain that leads to the required method. How can I achieve this? > > REason: will be quite a performance drawback to marshall the params > in xml format, then unmarshall them on the same application!!! It is > senseless!!! Like calling a local method using RMI !!! > > So could I get any hints on this one? > > Tx > dovle