Thanks, Keith-- that does help. I guess the only crunch for me comes in that my service uses a connection to a database, so I've got to make sure that I have a pool of connections to use. Jakarta DBCP sounds like the ticket, no?
-Roy >What normally happens with a servlet (and Axis is a servlet) is that a >single instance is used to handle all requests, unless the Web Server >provides a pool of servlet instances (in my experience, WebLogic is the >only server I've come across that does), or the servlet implements the >SingleThreadModel interface (in which case requests to each instance are >serialized). > >So that should be fine for your scalability, as far as the servlet is >concerned. I guess you need to be concerned about whether your web service >is thread-safe, and the scope of the instances that are created by Axis as >defined by your wsdd file. > >Hope that helps >Keith "Disclaimer � The opinions expressed in this message are strictly personal and do not necessarily reflect those of FiLogix."
