Hi,

I am trying to set a handler to a web method. The problem is that I think that everything is set fine and the execution is not even going trough it.

This is my handler:

package handlers;

import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeSet;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.MessageContext;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.soap.SOAPHandler;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.soap.SOAPMessageContext;


public class AuthenticationHandler implements SOAPHandler <SOAPMessageContext>{

 public Set<QName> getHeaders() {
 return new TreeSet<QName>();
 }

 public void close(MessageContext msgContext) {
 System.out.println("Closing");
 }

 public boolean handleFault(SOAPMessageContext msgContext) {
 System.out.println("FAULT");
 return true;
 }

 public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext msgContext)
 {
 System.out.println("MESSAGE");
 return true;
 }

}

It is packaged in WEB-INF/clasess/jaxws-location-handlers.xml and its config file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<handler-chains xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:ns1="http://org.jboss.ws/jaxws/handlerscope"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee javaee_web_services_1_2.xsd">

 <handler-chain>
 <handler>
 <handler-class>handlers.AuthenticationHandler</handler-class>
 </handler>
 </handler-chain>

</handler-chains>

And this is how I am trying to use it in my web service (just say that the ws works perfectly):

package ws.impl;

public class ServiceImpl implements Service{
 ........
 ........
 @HandlerChain(file = "jaxws-location-handlers.xml")
 public String getItem(...){
 }
}

They are all together packaged in the same war file. I am using jbossws-2.0.3GA and Jboss-4.2.2.

I do not know why it is not working, as it seems so easy to set it up. Do I have something wrong in the service? Any idea?

Thanks a lot