I have a multithreaded app that is issuing SOAP requests via AXIS. It seems that if
thread 1 sets a http.proxyHost AxisProperty then it's visible to thread 2 when he
calls AxisProperties.getProperty(). (Because AxisProperties is tied to the current
ClassLoader?).
The problem I have is that I would like to have these multiple http requests on
different threads potentially target different (or no) proxy hosts, ie, each thread
gets its own AxisProperties.
To complicate things there seems to be an additional layer involved which is that down
in the DefaultSocketFactory.create() logic during the "writeToSocket" there is a call
to TransportClientPropertiesFactory.create("http") which returns a cached properties
object, but I *think* all that he is doing is making calls to
AxisProperties.getProperty().
Anyone have a recommendation for how to go about this? Thoughts occurring to me are to
replace the socket factory class with my own (with
AxisProperties.setProperty("axis.socketFactory",.. )?) and use ThreadLocal to get the
proxy values down to that level from my app code, and avoid the
TransportClientProperties cached object. But that seems a little inelegant. Anyone any
ideas?
-gr
