The way you can do it is as follow:
- write an init method in your class representing your service that you don't deploy
as web service method
- write a Servlet class that will call the init method of your service class
- in the WEB-INF/web.xml config file add a servlet entry for the previous serv
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 insta
