BTW,  On the Windows side, PocketSoap http://www.pocketsoap.com

is a great alternative to the MS SOAP toolkit.  I highly recommend it.

Ben

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:34, Anecito, Anthony (HQP) wrote:
> Thanks Michael,
> 
> I have started reading the article! Thanks everyone else so far for
> responding!!!
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Yuan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Light Weight Client using Axis
> 
> 
> 
> Use kSOAP. It is less than 100 KB. :) It is not as fully featured as Axis
> but it gets the job done in most cases. I have been using kSOAP to access
> Axis and JWSDP servers with no problems.
> 
> kSOAP does not come with a client stub generator itself. But most IDEs
> (SUNOne, WSDD) have included their own stub generators (from WSDL) for
> kSOAP.
> 
> For more information, check out an article about kSOAP I published on
> JavaWorld a couple of months ago.
> 
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2002/jw-0823-wireless.html
> 
> The article is in the context of J2ME. But kSOAP works on J2SE too.
> 
> cheers
> Michael
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> On 14 Feb 2003, Benjamin Tomasini wrote:
> 
> > That is an interesting thought.
> >
> > Perhaps there is a way to build a client-only Axis-lite?
> >
> > This could be an optional, be it advanced, build target that attempts to
> > put only the bare minimums into a single-standalone jar.  Like a Linux
> > boot disk.
> >
> > I would assume this would mean unjaring dependancies and repackaging.
> >
> > That could be a troubleshooting nightmare, and there may be some
> > licensing issues with Sun in regards to redistributing their stuff in a
> > different form.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:04, Anecito, Anthony (HQP) wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a solution of building a Axis client without using all
> > > those JARs? My client code got bloated 10X by including the 11 JARs
> (5MB)
> > > just to talk to the Axis server. The JAR's include the JAXP distrubtion
> from
> > > Sun. The JAR's total size is bigger then the JRE from Sun. I am trying
> to
> > > keep the entire distribution (including JARs) light weight.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Tony
> >
> >
> >
> 


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