On Jun 5, 2008, at 5:32 PM, 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?
Honestly, they are probably just leftovers from being ported from version to version to version. The very early incarnations of the JAX- WS spec were extenstions of the JAX-RPC spec (JAX-WS was originally jsut JAX-RPC 1.1, then 2.0, then renamed). The JAX-RPC handlers had specific lifecycle methods like init and destroy. Since Celtix was started before JAX-WS 2.0 was finalized and was closer to the JAX-RPC spec (and several of the samples were taken from IONA's JAX-RPC based product), it's quite likely those methods are just there due to historical reasons.
Feel free to remove them. --- Daniel Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
