I've been using Apache Soap for a few weeks - I'm quite happy with it. However, there's one thing that I want to do that required me to make a few small changes.
I want to be able to easily create a Call object from some SOAP XML. It appears that the only way to do this with the "standard" Soap library involves use of the classes ServiceManager and DeploymentDescriptor. But I don't really want to bother with all that, and it appears that the methods Call.extractFromEnvelope() and RPCMessage.extractFromEnvelope(), when they get down to the real work, just need a SOAPMappingRegistry object from the ServiceManager/DeploymentDescriptor.
So, I tweaked Call and RPCMessage to provide a version of extractFromEnvelope which takes a SOAPMappingRegistry object instead of a ServiceManager object. Works great for me.
So, my question is: Is it possible to get this change incorporated into the "official" SOAP code repository? If so, how do I go about that? Or alternatively, is this capability already there in Axis? (Sorry, I haven't started looking closely at Axis yet).
Thanks,
Lee
