I am new to SOAP and try to use it as an RPC protocol. I was looking at the XML-RPC, which seems simple enough to use and is light-weight. But the development with ASF seems to have stopped (?)
Apache's AXIS seems to reply on an external web server, unlike Apache's XML-RPC that has its own. This makes the application become a web service and part of the Tomcat runtime environment. The application will be passively waiting for an request to process, i.e. on-demand, but does not run continuously. Is there a way to make the application to run by continuously, i.e. JVM invokes the main() method of one of its class, but still be able to use SOAP as the RPC protocol? Or is that a way to at least make Tomcat spawn a thread to run the application so that it can run continuously in the background? Any help will be appreciated.
