How is the Service initialized with Application scope?

[Nuno Centeio]

Hi.

I'm a newbie to this web services thing.

I have a class that need's to perform some instructions when it loads,
e.g. I need to connect to a RMI Server.
How can I do that?

I've already put the scope as Application but the constructor is never
called... E.g in Servlets the engine calls init() to initialate the
Servlet... Is there a way to do that in Axis?

Thanks