Re: Services sharing same session

[Andre Charbonneau]

Hi,

Can this technique be used to go from a form-based authenticated servlet 
 to a basic-auth protected web service?

For example, if a servlet that is protected by form-based auth needs to 
make a web service call that is protected by basic-auth, will this 
method authenticate the user in the web service call? , or will axis 
still look for username/password arguments in the request?

Thanks.
Andre.
chris wrote:
Hi Magnus - My upcoming book on Axis to be published by O'Reilly will
cover this topic in depth.
Basically, you need to capture the Axis session ID from the first
service that you call and pass the ID across all the instantiated
service objects.
For example,

void CallServices() {

// create the service locator object
CqServiceLocator oServiceLocator = new CqServiceLocator();
// this will globally set all client calls to maintain session state
// NOTE: SimpleSessionHandler must be present in the flows on both the
// client and server
oServiceLocator.setMaintainSession(true);
// CALL Service to Initialize Session ID !!!
oServiceLocator.getCq().callMethod();
// Grab the service session id
Long oId = getSessionId(oCqServiceLocator);
TpServiceLocator oTpServiceLocator = new TpServiceLocator();

// Link the ticketPurchase session to the concertQuery session !!
setSessionId(oTpServiceLocator,oId);
// call Tp methods
}
static public void setSessionId(Service oService, Long oId) {
   AxisEngine engine = oService.getEngine();
   engine.setOption(SimpleSessionHandler.SESSION_ID,oId);
}
static public Long getSessionId(Service oService) {

   AxisEngine engine = oService.getEngine();
   return (Long)engine.getOption(SimpleSessionHandler.SESSION_ID);
}


/Chris
http://cvs.apache.org/~haddadc
Author of "Apache Axis: The Definitive Guide", to be published by
O'Reilly in 2004.


-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Services sharing same session

Hi,

I have several Services running in the same Webapp. Axis seems to
generate both server and client side OK - but I'd like to share the
Session between the different services. A simple maintainSession() on
the client and a getSession() on the server side doesn't seem to be good
enough. I have also tried a bit using the HTTPSession but I can't get
that to work either.
So how do I do this?

Thanks,

/Magnus


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