Hello,
I'm wondering if axis was intended to be used from an applet or a java web start enabled application. I'm wondering this because the size of jar files is prohibitive. I've seen some posts on this subject but can't find any information on how to build such a lightweight client jar (if that works). Are they any plans to support this in the standard distrib ? Any workaround to deploy an application without MBs of jar just for calling a web services ? May be another lightweight client can do the job ?
Any Infos appreciated,
Richard
Well, I'm doing just that, a web start app using Axis. Started with Glue but it didn't work through web start as it reads config files from the local hard disk, and doesn't seem to read them from JARs. At the moment the complete app is about 5Mb due to extra unoptimised JARs, but imho this is not a problem.
BTW, you can seed the client PCs with the app if you can supply a CD. There are several articles on-line about preloading JARs into the webstart cache on client machines.
I haven't checked yet, but is Axis supplied built with debug info ? If so, rebuilding with debugging turned off may help.
Jon.
