I am fairly new to Axis and need some help with a design question. I have a class that is being used to provide webservices. Thanks to Axis, this class doesn't need to know that it is being used as a webservice - it could be used as a command-line utility as a Swing backend, etc. I deploy it in WEB-INF/classes and the service-config.wsdd controls it's use as a webservice.
Here's the dilemma: I want to pass data about the request or data created in request Handlers to this object and I want to keep this separation of concerns intact. Is there any way I can get a reference to the object being used for the webservice method call. Then I can pass the data along such that when the webservice method is called the data is there for the method to use? For example, let's say I have webservice methods implemented by a class called BusyBee. I want to grab the ID of the MessageContext Session and use that as a key in my BusyBee.doSomething() method. I could call MessageContext.getCurrentContext() in the method, but that breaks the separation of concerns. So I have a method BusyBee.setSessionId(). How can I call that method and apply the MessageContext Session info from outside of BusyBee? I'm sure the answer is right in front of me but I'm just not that familiar with Axis yet to see it. thx andy
