I don't know if you're set on using open source software, but you might want to check out GLUE, from The Mind Electric at http://www.themindelectric.com/ - it's free, and personally, I find it much easier to use than Apache SOAP 2. It has a lot of the advanced features of Axis.
It has the ability to run in its own servlet container. -jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:24 PM Subject: Re: Servlet Options > I'd be interested in this info too since we are about to do the same thing. > > I was planning on writing the client side portion using the apache soap > stuff, but without tomcat (don't really even know if I can do it that way) > > Do a search on Sourceforge.net for java soap, there are about 6 listed. > > > At 12/7/01 02:57 PM, Jared Peterson wrote: > >I have an interesting situation were I am interested in not necessarily > >running a soap service on a central server but possibly on individual > >client machines. This client soap service would act as a gateway to > >local machine functionality and other local LAN capability. I was > >wondering if anyone knows of any lighter weight servlet options other > >than tomcat. Can I expose Apache SOAP via some other mechanism that > >would not have such a large footprint on the client machine? I need > >something very light weight that can handle the soap calls. I would be > >curios to here suggestions. Has anyone else out there tried to do this? > >Thanks a lot > > > >Jared > >
