re: gzip support

[Brian W. Young]

Thanks for the input. I'm determined to make this work because without compression, I can't use Axis. I'm sending too much data for SOAP to be feasible w/o compression. Of course, I'll make any solution I implement available to the community.

I found some info on handlers but not a lot, especially on handlers at the transport level. Here is what I am thinking. The HTTPSender class is apparently a client transport handler. I need to extend this class to wrap the output stream in a GZIP stream so that data going from the client to the server is compressed. I do not yet know how to make an Axis SOAP client use my new, extended HTTPSender class.

On the server, it looks like all requests coming in come to the AxisServlet. I would assume I need to extend this servlet and wrap its InputStream in a GZIP stream, and then modify web.xml to use the new servlet instead. I've not found where on the server that I can put a handler which will decompress the inbound data.

This approach may be incorrect. However, I have the skill set to implement a good solution if someone more knowledgable of Axis can give me some additional pointers. Let me know if this thread should move to the deveoper list.

Thanks sincerely
Brian Young




>You should be able to write "Handlers" for Axis that will process the >messages (both client and server) on the way in/out. This would allow >you to support gzip'd data transparently.
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>This is how Axis is designed, to be extensible. See the documentation >for architecture details.
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>Note that on the client, you configure the handlers in the >'client-config.wsdd' file, pretty much the same way you do in the >server-config.wsdd file.
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>Hope this helps point you in the right diirection.
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>--
>Tom Jordahl
>Macromedia Server Development