publish any object as web service

It would be great if one could take any object and publish it as a service. See for example http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=axis-dev&m=115168170301873 . We have similar requirements (we configure objects using Spring), so we figured out a way to create our own Axis configuration and fill it with service handlers for our objects. To make the AxisServlet use our handmade configuration, we create an AxisServer object and store it as an attribute in the ServletContext.