Andrew... Look in the archives for this thread: "stateful web services" 4/2/02. I posted an example showing how to make the service stateful for each client session. Good luck. Stan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Vardeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:44 PM Subject: how to implement sessions, persistent objects, etc. ? > Hi folks. > > My supervisor and I are hoping to use SOAP for communications between a > handheld data collection instrument and the server where the data are > stored. For this we need a dialogue between the handheld and the server > that will last for more than one request/response. If I understand Axis > properly, each request is an island. How do I persist session data? Or, > suppose I want the server to send two messages for every one sent by the > client. Or, say I want to fire off an arbitrary number of status messages > as I process the client's request. Is there any way (other than writing a > separate program and having Axis communicate with it, which seems to defeat > the whole purpose of Axis) to keep a process running that is specific to > one client's session? Is it possible for the server to send "responses" > without the associated requests? > > Does that make any sense? > > Andrew > > >
