axis background thread?

[tom mccarthy <to...@lambelly.com>]

I am trying to implement a web service which does a large number of 
things. For instance, it can make on the order of 40,000 sql queries 
depending on what needs to be done. Because this takes such a long time 
to do, and because the user is only needed to give the information 
necessary to start the thread, I'd prefer to just start a thread, send a 
response to the user that this thread has been initiated, and have this 
thread run long after the user has gone on their merry way.

I guess my question is, is it possible to implement a background process 
like this where the process continues long after the response has been 
sent back to the user, or can this only be implemented as a process 
which does not give a response back to the user?

I've been looking for information on this, but really haven't found 
much. Perhaps because I'm not using the right terminology. I'm quite new 
to axis and web services.

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