I am reviewing in detail the JAX-RPC specification and have acknowledged the Service Endpoint Model chapter (10). As I was browsing the source code of Axis, I was not able to see this interface being used in the org.apache... implementation (it is defined in the jaxrpc package). Should the service implementation class implements the ServiceLifecycle interface in order to initialize and release resources ?
PS: I have not yet looked at the beta 2 of Axis, might be there.... Thanks for any answer Olivier