Can a webservice be implemented as a Singleton

[William]

I have a need to implement a webservice where speed is of the essence. This
web service will process product orders in a B2B scenario where SLA's are
critical, as well as collect metrics on the duration of various milestones
through the application layers path that will be persisted to a BizTalk 2006
BAM interface for QoS tracking and reporting. Because the BAM API call is
another path through the layers peripheral to the order I would like to
write the collected metrics to a global synchronized Queue object and
process it out of band via a worker thread created when the Singleton is
instantiated, thus allowing the primary product order request to finish as
quickly as possible.

Question: Is this doable?

[Gaurav Vaish \(www.EduJini.IN\)]

write the collected metrics to a global synchronized Queue object and

process it out of band via a worker thread created when the Singleton is
instantiated, thus allowing the primary product order request to finish as

Technically, everytime, the web service will be instantiated.
You can however, make a private static variable and work using the same....
but yes, the WS engine will call the public default constructor.
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