Currently, there is no standard way to obtain an engine configuration in Axis. The result is quite a bit of duplicated code and an inability to predictably override the defaults.
I'm working on a change to introduce an EngineConfigurationFactory interface with a DefaultEngineConfigurationFactory implementation which may be overridden via a system property. The default engine config. factory will produce client engine configurations based on a WSDD configuration file with filename specifiable in a system property but with default value as today (Constants.CLIENT_CONFIG_FILE) and server side configurations similarly configurable but defaulting to the file with name Constants.SERVER_CONFIG_FILE. The factory interface and default implementation will also have helper methods which create an engine configuration based on the appropriate file (as above) but with a specific Handler added, which will remove some more duplicated code from various testcases. I hope to commit the changes in the next day or so. Glyn
