Accessing the MessageContext of a Handler From the Backend Component

Question

Hi,
I am trying to access the MessageContext in my webService, but am not able to do it. I am able to get my handler executed and i see the flow thru the handler.
public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext messageContext) {
boolean flag = false;
Document document = null;
SOAPMessageContext smc = (SOAPMessageContext) messageContext;
SOAPMessage soapMessage = smc.getMessage();
try {
SOAPBody soapBody = soapMessage.getSOAPBody();
document = soapBody.extractContentAsDocument();
flag = true;
} catch (SOAPException e) {
LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, "Error retrieving body from soap message: " + e.getMessage());
messageContext.setProperty("bodyAsDocument", document);
return flag;
But when it is trying to get the context in the webservice using the following code:
SOAPMessageContext smc = WebServiceContext.currentContext().getLastMessageContext();
it says:
unable to find context for current thread
Here is my webservice.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<webservices xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.1">
<webservice-description>
<webservice-description-name>ProductDataService</webservice-description-name>
<wsdl-file>/wsdls/ProductDataWS.wsdl</wsdl-file>
<jaxrpc-mapping-file>WEB-INF/ProductDataService.xml</jaxrpc-mapping-file>
<port-component>
<port-component-name>ProductDataPort</port-component-name>
<wsdl-port xmlns:prod="http://localhost/ProductDataService">prod:ProductDataPort</wsdl-port>
<service-endpoint-interface>com.test.productdata.ws.ProductDataImplPortType</service-endpoint-interface>
<service-impl-bean>
<servlet-link>ProductDataServiceServlethttp</servlet-link>
</service-impl-bean>
<handler>
<handler-name>com.test.productdata.handler.ProductDataSOAPMessageHandler</handler-name>
<handler-class>com.test.productdata.handler.ProductDataSOAPMessageHandler</handler-class>
</handler>
</port-component>
</webservice-description>
</webservices>
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance
-k

Answer 1

WebServiceContext.currentContext() API only works
for web service created by WLS using ant tasks. This
does not work for WLW web services.