I don't see any built-in support out of the box (Looking thru the sources) One could add another element to deployment description indicating whether it is to be started at init time and enhance AxisServlet init code appropriately. It is not too much work : see if someone on axis-dev is willing to volunteer :-)
Sanjay --- Winston Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I posted this question last week without success, > thought I'll try > again.. > > Q: Is it possible to have the axis servlet > instantiate a service's > object (of "Application" scope) upon its startup? > i.e. Instead of > waiting for a client to invoke its methods. > > Any suggestions/comments are very much appreciated. > > Thanks! > Winston > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
