replacing DefaultSocketFactory

[Steven Gollery]

I'd like to set up SocketFactoryFactory so that, instead of returning 
DefaultSocketFactory for HTTP, it returns an instance of MySocketFactory 
(a class derived from DefaultSocketFactory).

From the way that SocketFactoryFactory is implemented, it appears that 
the way to do this would be something like:
AxisProperties.setClassOverrideProperty(MySocketFactory.class, 
"axis.socketFactory");

But when I try to do this in my code, I still get DefaultSocketFactory.

One thing that may be germane: my code is a servlet running in Tomcat. 
The servlet uses Axis client classes to call a remote web service, then 
formats the results into html.

So: should this work? Is there a better way to do this? Am I completely 
off track here?

Thanks,

Steven Gollery
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