Axis Web Service Container - Scalability

[Soactive Inc <so...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

We are currently thinking of using Axis as the underlying service
container for a product that would involve routing and managing all
web service traffic for an enterprise. That means, Axis must perform
well under extremely high traffic and loads with almost 100% uptime.
The reason for us to use Axis is that its open source, reasonably well
supported, and relies on a servlet architecture that is generally
known to scale well for web/enterprise sites.

My questions are:

1. Has anyone performed any scalability tests on Axis and if so, can
you please share some numbers/observations?

2. If Axis does not yet scale, whats the best way to use the same
codebase thats developed for axis to migrate it to another service
container i.e. maintain portability across service containers.

3. If Axis essentially follows the same numbers as any servlet, I am
even thinking of shipping and installing Axis as a webapp along with
our software - this way, there's very little portability issues to
deal with.

Any comments/observations/insights highly appreciated.

Thanks...
-Arun