Access to SOAPheader via client stub?

[Dunn, Scott]

Last year I wrote a service using an earlier version of Axis that passed
authentication information via the header. To access the header I had to
manually modify the generated client stub as in the example below.
This is far from ideal as I have to make the same modification everytime the
WSDL file is updated and the stub is regenerated.

I think I could create my own code gen factory and have it invoke my own
subclass of JavaStubWriter which would generate the code below along with
appropriate setters that would allow the USER and PASSWORD properties to be
set, however as I also want to be able to hand this off to other users I
don't want to have to send them updates everytime Axis is rev'd and
therefore the stub client potentially changed.

Ideally, I would be able to invoke something like
stub.addHeaderProperty(propName, propValue).

Any ideas on the most appropriate way to manipulate the header without
having to modify the generated stub?

Thanks,

Scott.

    private org.apache.axis.client.Call createCall() throws
java.rmi.RemoteException {
        try {
            org.apache.axis.client.Call _call =
                    (org.apache.axis.client.Call)
super.service.createCall();

            org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement user =
              new org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement("", "USER");
            user.setObjectValue("foo");
            _call.addHeader(user);
            org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement password =
              new org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement("", "PASSWORD");
            password.setObjectValue("bar");
            _call.addHeader(password);