Hi Jose,
Properties in MessageContext are mostly used to store HTTP header
information.
Yes there is one message context per request. This MessageContext is passed
through handlers and one of the biggest jobs of MessageContext is to carry
information. This design pattern is called the mediator pattern. You can
read all about this in developer guide.
My instinct say that in your case this wouldn't be much help. For a service
Axis-Engine anyway executes all service handlers. You cannot control which
service handlers should/shouldn't be executed according to the data in
MessageContext, because this is a business done by the Axis-Engine.
Regards,
Dimuthu.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jose Miguel Selman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:35 PM
Subject: Passing Values through handlers
Hi:
I have a question regarding on how to pass values from one handler to
another in a handler chain, this is needed in order to by-pass one of the
handlers for certain cases.
I came with the idea of using properties in the MessageContext, but I
have a few questions about it. Is there one Context per request or is it
shared within requests? Will this approach be thread safe?
I haven't found anything about this in the documentation, so any help
will be extremely appreciated.
Cheers...
Jose M Selman
