Async web services, do they exist?

[Trond Hjelmaas]

Hi,

I have a problem with finding relevant info regarding asynch Web Services.


For example, I've got this javaclass, all it does is wait 10 seconds

public class delay{
        public void wait10sec(){
                /*some code for 10 sec delay*/
        }

}

it has WSDL like:
......
   <message name="wait10sec0Request"/>
   <portType name="blahPortType">
      <operation name="wait10sec">
         <input name="wait10sec0Request" message="tns:wait10sec0Request"/>
      </operation>
   </portType>
   <binding name="blahBinding" type="tns:blahPortType">
      <soap:binding style="rpc"
                transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
      <operation name="wait10sec">
         <soap:operation soapAction="" style="rpc"/>
         <input name="wait10sec0Request">
            <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="blah"
                encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
         </input>
      </operation>
   </binding>
   <service name="blah">
      <port name="blahPort" binding="tns:blahBinding">
         <soap:address
                location="http://some_URTL:8888/blah_ctx/blah"/>
      </port>
   </service>

NOTE: I have change WSDL to have no response, the original has reponse
message listed, but is was empty.....

According to some mail I read Web Services are async if they don't have
any reponse method.

I uploaded this and invoke the method using Oracle9ias (9.0.0.3), the
invocation halts for 10 seconds, and does NOT return ASAP (which is what I
need).

Any suggestions about how to make asynch Web Services are very
appreciated!

Regards, Trond