the better way to do is put a Servlet listener or a filter which will receive the request and do the necessary initilization and then forward the request to the Axis Servlet
if it is one time load then you then its better to load from the listener than the filter Rgds Soma Shekar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:23 AM Subject: Re: How to perform init operations? > This question was asked yesterday... please look at the archives. > > stephen > > Agarwal, Naresh wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I'm developing a Web Service using AXIS. > > > > I want to perform some init operation before any client make any request > > to my web service, i.e., at the time when axis is loaded in Tomcat or > > when web service is delpoyed. > > > > What is right way to do this? > > > > Can I use init() function of AxisServlet for doing the same? > > > > thanks, > > Naresh > >
