I've got a SOAP service that takes a long time to initialize because it is creating a instance of a relational dabatase, opening a JDBC connection, etc.
This initialization gets done in a static initialization block in the service - so it only happens once. But, it seems like Axis doesn't instantiate an instance of the service class until it gets invoked for the first time. The problem I have is that I get a socket time-out exception on the client while it is waiting for the init stuff to finish the first time the service is called. Is there any way that I can force the service to initialize *before* it gets called. Like when the AxisServlet starts up? Or when the service is deployed through the AdminClient? Thanks for your help, Mark
