Hi all, I started studying axis recently and have done some work on it. I am having problems with handler chain management. According to my understanding of the jax-rpc spec we can block the handler chain flow at
any point and return from that point provided that the appropriate SoapMessageContext is provided. The runtime system should be responsible for invoking the response handlers. My problem is i have a chain of handlers and i need to block the request flow at runtime on certain conditions evaluated in handleRequest method. Correct me if i am wrong.. according to my understanding if you return a false from handleRequest request handler chain is blocked and target service endpoint should not be invoked.. and response handler chain should start processing (should it start from the same handler that returned false???). I see that axis does return from request handler chain but it still invokes the target service endpoint and starts the response chain as configured. Can any one please explain me is this the expected behaviour, did i miss anything or is it a problem with axis handler chain implementation. Regards, Sreekant