Simple session example

[Richard Taylor]

I'm running AXIS in Orion Application Server 1.5.4 on Win XP with J2SDK1.4.0

All the small examples I've tried are working perflectly and I'm really
impressed with AXIS so far!

I've come across a problem getting a very simple example working to
demonstrate session maintenance (following on from the example on
javaworld.com).

Here's my client code:

    HelloServerService service = new
javaworld.axis.proxy.HelloServerServiceLocator();
    HelloServer port = service.getHelloServer();
    ((HelloServerSoapBindingStub) port).setMaintainSession (true); // keep
session open
    port.setOwner("Test"); // set variable that should be session maintained

    // make the call
    String ret = port.sayHelloTo(args[0]);
    System.out.println(ret);

Here's the Web Service:

    String owner = new String();

    public void setOwner(String name) {
        System.out.println("setOwner(String name)");
        owner = name;
    }

    public String sayHelloTo(String name) {
        System.out.println("sayHelloTo(String name) - owner=" + owner);

        if (owner != null && owner.equals(name))
            return "Hello " + name + ", You are my owner";
        else
            return "Hello " + name + ", How are you doing?";
    }

I'm running this simply as a .jws file on my app server, then generating the
proxies with WSDL2Java for the client.

However when I run it with a parameter of "Test" the debug shows it has
setOwner but sayHelloTo returns '....How are you doing?'

Is there anything else I need to do?
Has anyone got any better examples (I've looked at WidgetPrice and
AddressFinder and they seem to be doing the same thing).

Thanks,

Richard Taylor
New Scientist Developer