>It's the way it works. It's a servlet, so you need a servlet container, >such as tomcat.
I don't thinkA hat's strictly true. Axis has a local transport, which bypasses HTTP. And SOAP is transport neutral. In theory you could do SOAP over SMTP, for instance, although I don't know if Axis supports that. Axis also has a built in simple HTTP server if you don't want to set up Tomcat yourself. In practice, yes, you want Axis in a servlet container.
