Use a message-style handler rather than an RPC-style handler. Provider="java:MSG" in WSDD. Look in the Axis FAQ for the method signatures for message handlers.
-----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Vullhorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:51 AM To: Axis-Userlist (E-Mail) Subject: Forward parts of a SOAP-Message Hi, I plan to write some kind of communications bus to transport (parts of) SOAP messages. The idea is to send a SOAP request to the bus, a built in broker determines the responsible processing instance and forwards a part of the message to that instance using SOAP again. The message flow should be like this (java like notation instead of SOAP messages here) Server A: "bus.writeCustomer(Customer a)" Bus : (lookup in repository: server responsible for "writeCustomer(Customer)") -> ServerB, method=write Bus : ServerB.write(Customer a) /* write, not writeCustomer */ Server B: (handle the request and send the response to Server A via the bus) My problem is the following: The bus has to call the method "write(Customer a)" via SOAP without knowing what a customer type is... I read that I can define chains for SOAP processing in Axis. Do I have to define an own chain that does not deserialize the SOAP message content to a Java object?! Can I use a custom deserializer to put the content of the customer namespace to a simple string and to put this String to another SOAP message to forward it to Server B? Thanks, Wolfgang
