Hi Deepal, I have tried all scopes. In client side I have set manage session to true. For instance. I set the session scope in services.xml to "transportsession". In the web service I use MessageContext messageContext = MessageContext.getCurrentMessageContext(); ServiceContext scontext = messageContext.getServiceContext(); To store values to last per session. e.g. scontext.setProperty("SUM","" + sum); and I re-use sum across invocations. Also in client I do: ServiceClient client = new ServiceClient(); Options options = new Options(); options.setTo(new EndpointReference("http://127.0.0.1:8080/axis2/services/MyLittleWebService")); options.setManageSession(true); client.setOptions(opts); I can see that the data I place in MessageContext persist across invocations but I also see that a new web service instance is created per invocation.
So my question is, that the session data will persist but I should expect the web service to be re-instantiated per invocation? In the example of transport session I have in the web service: public class MyLittleWebService{ publicMyLittleWebService(){ System.out.println("MyLittleService constructor called! New Instance created!"); } And the constructor is being called across all invocations for all types of session except application. So I understand I must use session data, but this is the expected behavior as well? Re-instantiate the WS per invocation? Isn't it expensive for enterprise level web services? If I am confused on this, please help me out understand what am I doing wrong here. Thank you ________________________________ From: Deepal Jayasinghe <dee...@opensource.lk> To: java-user@axis.apache.org Sent: Sun, January 23, 2011 4:08:04 PM Subject: Re: axis2 session scopes On 1/23/2011 7:11 AM, am am wrote: I am starting on axis2 (1.5.4). >I am looking into the various session scopes for web services >(request, >soapsession etc). >By experimenting, I notice that in all scopes except the application >scope, there is a new instance of my web service being created per >service call. >Only by setting the scope to "application" in the services.xml, the >web >service is instantiated only once, and being re-used across all web >service calls. >My testing for this, was actually a print statement in the web service >constructor. The constructor was called for scope="request" or >scope="soapsession" or scope="transportsession" for each ws call. >So my question is the following: Is this the case in axis2? And if >yes, >for non-trivial web services, isn't it very costly (to re-instantiate >per service call)? >Is the recommended approach to use application scope services? Or my >understanding is wrong here? > Nope, this is not the way Axis2 does the session. As I can see you have not send session related information to manage the session. For example, when you use soapsession you need to send the session ID, which you can do simply by engaging addressing module to both client and server side and setting the setManageSession(true) in the option object. Similarly, when you use transport session you are required to send the cookies, which can also done by setting the above property. For the request session, it creates service instance for each invocation. Deepal >Thank you! > > > > >