I am trying to understand how SOAP headers are handled by Axis. I admit that I can find the answer to my question by looking into the source code, but in the case someone as a quick answer, I will appreciate.
The sequence of operation call to my web service is the following: 1) Login operation. No SOAP header in the request, my web service implementation is adding a SOAP header in the response (a session id). The WSDL contains the following declaration under the wsdl:output element of the login operation. <wsdlsoap:header use="encoded" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="http://jobcontrol.dmi.ascentialsoftware.com/"; message="intf:sessionHeader" part="SessionID" /> 2) OperationXXX. The request must contain the SOAP header that was returned by the Login operation. My web service implementation is NOT adding any header to the response (no need to send the session id on each subsequent operation response, only the client must send it). The WSDL contains the following declaration under the wsdl:input element of the operationXXX operation: <wsdlsoap:header use="encoded" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; namespace="http://jobcontrol.dmi.ascentialsoftware.com/"; message="intf:sessionHeader" part="SessionID" /> My server is using Axis 1.0, and I am using Axis 1.1 beta for the client (to avoid the requirement of the servlet.jar as well as taking advantage of the latest SOAP header support). The login operation is working fine, I get my SOAP header back. But then I am experiencing two problems: 1) For every call to OperationXXX, the SOAP header sent by the client in the request is also in the response while my web service implementation code is not explicitly doing something like that (my code is just checking the presence of the header in the request and uses its value to retrieve session information. This is only on the login operation that I explicitly add a SOAP header to the response). Is Axis automatically sending back the SOAP headers that it receives? I am not using/setting the SOAP actor or SOAP mustUnderstand attributes. I checked the SOAP1.1 spec and, in any cases, the header is not supposed to be sent back automatically, is it? 2) If the client is calling multiple time OperationXXX, the SOAP header is duplicated as many time as OperationXXX has been called. It might be related to problem 1: First OperationXXX request: <soapenv:Header> <ns1:SessionID xmlns:ns1="http://jobcontrol.dmi.ascentialsoftware.com/";> <ID xsi:type="xsd:string">4F60DEC3C6ED7B6FB14E1806F5E8BA69</ID> </ns1:SessionID> </soapenv:Header> Second OperationXXX request: <soapenv:Header> <ns1:SessionID xmlns:ns1="http://jobcontrol.dmi.ascentialsoftware.com/";> <ID xsi:type="xsd:string">4F60DEC3C6ED7B6FB14E1806F5E8BA69</ID> </ns1:SessionID> <ns1:SessionID xmlns:ns1="http://jobcontrol.dmi.ascentialsoftware.com/";> <ID xsi:type="xsd:string">4F60DEC3C6ED7B6FB14E1806F5E8BA69</ID> </ns1:SessionID> </soapenv:Header> And so on ... By the way, for each of those requests, the response contains the header only one time. Any ideas if it is something that I am missing or a potential Axis bug? Thanks in advance for any help. Thomas
