I think this[1] is the class you're referring to. I don't know what those methods are for, but as handlers are just an interface it's OK for implementations of them to have additional methods. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just FYI, here's some research I did on interceptor/handler differences[2].
HTH, Glen [1] http://tinyurl.com/3s4tlf [2] http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_cxf_switching_between_jax 2008-06-05 Johnson, Eric wrote: > In the Handler demo both handlers have init() and destroy() methods. I > cannot find them in the spec or the JAX-WS handler API docs. What are > they for?
