Java™ for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Configuring the Client for Session Tracking

When interacting with a JAX-WS web service that performs session tracking, the client application must indicate whether it wants to allow the web service to maintain session information. Lines 50–51 in the constructor perform this task. We first cast the service endpoint interface object to interface type BindingProvider. A BindingProvider enables the client to manipulate the request information that will be sent to the server. This information is stored in an object that implements interface RequestContext. The BindingProvider and RequestContext are part of the framework that is created by the IDE when you add a web service client to the application. Next, we invoke the BindingProvider’s getRequestContext ...