CXF, Spring, & random SOAP Headers

[Aaron Mulder]

I'm using a Spring (2.5.6) CXF (2.1.3) service set up with something like this:

    <jaxws:endpoint
            id="soapService"
            implementor="#myService"
            address="/MyService" />

I'd like to add a filter/interceptor/handler to read some arbitrary
SOAP headers and decide whether to let the processing continue.  The
WSDL/Schema for the service is ignorant of these headers and their
associated data types.

I first tried to add a CXF interceptor like this:

    <jaxws:endpoint
            id="soapService"
            implementor="#myService"
            address="/MyService">
        <jaxws:inInterceptors>
            <ref bean="testSoapInterceptor" />
        </jaxws:inInterceptors>
   </jaxws:endpoint>

But this interceptor sees NO headers at all (it gets an empty list
from SoapMessage.getHeaders()).  I wonder if that's because they're
not in the schema so JAXB doesn't know how to decode them?

Anyway, then I tried adding a JAX-WS handler.  I marked up my service
implementation bean like this:

@HandlerChain(file="soapHandlers.xml")
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {
...

Then I created a soapHandlers.xml in the same package directory as that class:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jws:handler-chains xmlns:jws="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee";>
    <jws:handler-chain>
        <jws:handler>
            <jws:handler-class>sample.soap.ServerHandler</jws:handler-class>
        </jws:handler>
    </jws:handler-chain>
</jws:handler-chains>

But this just seems to be ignored.  At runtime I get no messages about
the JAX-WS handler being created or applied, and I get no output from
the hander's handleMessage method at all.

I'm running out of ideas.  What's the best way to do this?

Thanks,
      Aaron