----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Greif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:55 PM Subject: Use of Message services
> For obscure reasons, I am interposing a adaptor web service between a client > and the target web service, in order to manipulate the SOAP envelopes sent > by the client and returned by the target service. > ... > Presumably the adaptor service can be selected by the URL of client http > request. The question is, how does the Axis server know to call the one > method of the service, when the request SOAP packet does not mention its > name? Can this be done via the SOAPAction URI (e.g. have all the operations > in the WSDL the client sees use the same soap action associated with the > adapter service?) Is some other alternative possible using some handler > setting something in the MessageContext? After some traversal of the source, I can answer my own question, in case anyone else is interested. A message service, at least in Axis 1.1, is required to have just one method, that method having one of the 4 allowed signatures. The request envelope does not need to be examined to determine the method for dispatch. Jeff
