ServiceLifecycle init/destroy

["Herrick, Mike" <mi...@mentorg.com>]

Hi, I'm a little confused on javax.xml.rpc.server.ServiceLifecycle.

I had hoped that it was similar to javax.servlet.Servlet in that init and destroy are only called once.

>From my testing, with javax.xml.rpc.server.ServiceLifecycle, init and destroy are called on each request of the service endpoint. Is this correct?

If it is, is there another interface or something I can implement or another mechanism to get something similar to javax.servlet.Servlet (i.e., init only called once, destroy only called once)?

I want to create some expensive objects once and stick them in the ServletContext ... I can just use null logic I suppose, but I'd like to use a lifecycle method if one exists/works.

Best regards,

Mike