Alternate transport

[Alex Colomb]

I’ve done some searching of the list, but was unable to find anything informative.  I’m trying to create a client/server solution for a simple messaging system (im).  I’d really like to use soap, but it seems that to get any functionality in the client portion, I’d have to run a web server of some sort to handle requests.  Has anyone done this (maybe using SimpleAxisServer)?  If not, has anyone tried using axis with a transport other that HTTP?  Maybe straight sockets?  Thank you, Alex