Java application for web services access

Hi,

I have to build a java application (running on my WIN2000 PC) that sends and retrieves data from Amazon webservice.

Most articles I read for doing that mention the need of installing Tomcat.

It's not quite clear to me why.

All I want to do is connecting from my java program (via SOAP) to Amazon and retrieve data.

What would I need for that additionally to J2EE?

Apache's axis?

Also a webserver (e.g. tomcat) running on my machine?

Please help!

Cheers,

Rich

[531 byte] By [brichya] at [2007-10-2 8:56:20]