Try Wingfoot SOAP -- free for commercial use. I've been told that IONA XMLBus also supports applets.
Anne > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Barber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: has anyone ever build a lightweight client with axis ? > > > Richard De Falco wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm wondering if axis was intended to be used from an applet or a java > > web start enabled application. I'm wondering this because the size of > > jar files is prohibitive. I've seen some posts on this subject but > > can't find any information on how to build such a lightweight client > > jar (if that works). Are they any plans to support this in the > > standard distrib ? Any workaround to deploy an application without MBs > > of jar just for calling a web services ? May be another lightweight > > client can do the job ? > > > > Any Infos appreciated, > > > > Richard > > Well, I'm doing just that, a web start app using Axis. Started with > Glue but it didn't work through web start as it reads config files from > the local hard disk, and doesn't seem to read them from JARs. At the > moment the complete app is about 5Mb due to extra unoptimised JARs, but > imho this is not a problem. > > BTW, you can seed the client PCs with the app if you can supply a CD. > There are several articles on-line about preloading JARs into the > webstart cache on client machines. > > I haven't checked yet, but is Axis supplied built with debug info ? If > so, rebuilding with debugging turned off may help. > > Jon. > > >
