Keep Alive

[Alex Chen]

I am using Tomcat as my web server.  I am using AXIS for SOAP.  I notice 
via ethereal that the are a lot of
port opening from the client side for the HTTP (SOAP) requests.  I would 
like to keep the socket open
for the client.  I do not know which component is responsible for 
closing the socket, Tomcat server or
AXIS server, or even the client side, and how to keep the socket open 
and be reused by the same client.

Can anyone help?