Passing Objects Through Handlers Axis 1.1

[Jose M. Selman]

Hi:
    I need to pass objects between a Client and a handler that does request
message signing. I just need to pass the private key and certificate to the
handler to sign every outgoing requests. This is needed because this will be
a generic client that will be called using different digital ids. I'm doing:

MessageContext context = call.getMessageContext();
context.setProperty("privatekey", privateKey);
context.setProperty("x509certificate", cert);
String result = (String) call.invoke(new Object[] { inputXML });

In the handler I have:

PrivateKey privateKey = (PrivateKey) msgContext.getProperty("privatekey");
X509Certificate cert = (X509Certificate)
msgContext.getProperty("x509certificate");
if ( privateKey == null ) {
    log("privateKey is null");
}
if ( cert == null ) {
    log("cert is null");
}

Both logging statements are printed.... Any ideas on what can be wrong or
missing?

Cheers

Jose M. Selman