3 Replies Latest reply on Oct 24, 2005 10:35 AM by jason.greene

    WS-AtomicTransaction Handler

    jason.greene

      Ivan said:

      Hello,

      I'm working on WS-AtomicTransaction, and I need a way to make a handler that intercepts calls to *every* web service deployed in JBoss. In JBoss 4 I achieved this using an Axis style handler (org.jboss.axis.handlers.BasicHandler) in both client and server sides. Is there anything equivalent in JBossWS? I need such a handler to implement the transaction context propagation part.

      Thanks in advance.



        • 1. Re: WS-AtomicTransaction Handler
          jason.greene

          I can think of 2 ways to go about this.

          1. Dynamically insert your handler into the JAX-RPC handler list for every web service and client. It is ok to install container handlers here because JSR109 forbids the client or service endpoint from modifying the handler chain.

          2. We integrate our own handler/filter subsystem that is a layer on top of the JAX-RPC handlers.

          I ran into this problem when implementing WS-Security because I have to catch the request in a very early stage of processing (so option 1 wasn't possible for me). If the message is encrypted, it can't be analyzed until security processing is complete. So in this special case, I added a direct hook, with the intention of revisting it if there are other components that need to do this.

          I am thinking Option 2 is the way to go.

          Thomas,

          What are your thoughts on this?

          -Jason

          • 2. Re: WS-AtomicTransaction Handler
            thomas.diesler

            JAXWS-2.0 defines handlers at transport, binding and endpoint level with a specific order for them.

            The security use case is a good example for a binding handler. What we probably need is the notion of global handler configuration like other stacks have as well (Axis)

            Jason, maybe you want to refactor the security handler a s a general binding handler that is configured externaly.

            • 3. Re: WS-AtomicTransaction Handler
              jason.greene

              Are binding handlers new? I looked at the final draft and I only see logical and protocol handlers mentioned.

              -Jason