Hi folks!
We are entering the wonderful world of Web Services, and we are successfully using GLUE right now. However, for licensing and other issues we would like to use an open-source solution, and Axis looks our best bet right now.
However, in one respect Axis lacks the desired functionality: we would like to be able to make our web services available without having to deploy them. The jws feature is alright, but does not fulfill our needs either -- we want to provide the services via our own objects, without having Axis instantiate them.
The idea is to be able to programmatically publish any object, with the name we desire. So, it seems that a Handler would be the way to go. Then again, the code is a bit mangled and hard to read. For example, is the method Handler.canHandleBlock() used at all? After a text search in the code, it always seems to return false.
By the way, if we ever get to make it work, would it be useful to anybody else?
Un saludo,
Alex Fernández.
