Dynamically generated handlers in wsdd file

Question

Hello,
I find that everytime I re-deploy my web service code, I need to go into the server-config.wsdd file and re-insert my handler declarations then restart my server.
Has anybody had luck in creating some sort of dynamic mechanism for handling this? Maybe by extending the functionality of the axis ant tasks for wsdl2java to have it, in addition to generating the <service/> elements, to also generate <requestFlow/> elements with <handler/> elements within that?
I'm just looking for ways to shorten the turn-around time for development to deployment. Thanks!
- M

Answer 1

I have similar requirement. For the time being, I have enhanced org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaDeployWriter in writeDeployPort().
pw.println(" <service name=\"" + serviceName + "\" provider=\""
+ prefix + ":RPC" + "\"" + styleStr + useStr + ">");
// BEGIN extended code
pw.println(" <!-- BEGIN extended code -->");
pw.println(" <requestFlow>");
pw.println(" <handler type=\"java:org.apache.ws.axis.security.WSDoAllReceiver\">");
pw.println(" <parameter name=\"passwordCallbackClass\" value=\"MyCallbackClass\"/>");
pw.println(" <parameter name=\"action\" value=\"UsernameToken\"/>");
pw.println(" </handler>");
pw.println(" </requestFlow>");
pw.println(" <!-- END extended code -->");
// END extended code
pw.println(" <parameter name=\"wsdlTargetNamespace\" value=\""
+ service.getQName().getNamespaceURI() + "\"/>");