October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 4m
English
Message handlers allow you to manipulate SOAP messages that are sent and received by JAX-RPC clients and Web service endpoints. They can be used with generated stubs, dynamic proxies, the DII, JAX-RPC service endpoints (JSEs), and EJB endpoints. If you've worked with servlet filters, message handlers will be familiar to you.
You may have noticed that none of the JAX-RPC client APIs (generated stubs, dynamic proxies, or DII) provide support for SOAP header blocks. In other words, if you use a generated stub or any other JAX-RPC client API to send a SOAP message, there's no obvious mechanism for adding header-block information. The same is also true of JAX-RPC Web service endpoints (JSEs and EJB endpoints). The primary ...