Get login name JAX-RPC

Question

Hello
I am using Java EE 5 and Glassfish.
Currently I am developing an application using JAX-RPC (1.4 style). This is NOT JAX-WS or older tech where everything had to be done "by hand". its something of a halfbreed invented at the time.
I have a service that looks something like the example, although much more complicated :)
package samples.webservices.jaxrpc.simple;
public class HelloImpl implements HelloIF {
    public String message = "Hello ";
    public String sayHello(String s) {
        return message + s;
}The IF class interface extends Remote
I would like to get the currently authenticated users user name for the specific RPC call. In older versions it was simple because you needed to deal with the SOAP envelope anyway and in JAX-WS it seems equally simple. but in the version I am using it seems straight out impossible to get the MessageContext or similar.
Can anyone please help me? I have read an awful lot of web pages without finding the answer.
Thanks in advance
/ Stefan

Answer 1

Ok after much reading, thinking and testing I was able to solve the problem (not very pretty but hopefully working).
Create an extra soap handler old school way
public class MySOAPHandler extends GenericHandler {
   public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext context) {
           Object o = context.getProperty("com.sun.xml.rpc.server.http.HttpServletRequest");
            if ( o != null ) {
                 currentuser = ((HttpServletRequest)o).getRemoteUser();
}Then register this in webservicese.xml
       <handler>
           <handler-name>My SOAP Handler</handler-name>
           <handler-class>full.class.path.MySOAPHandler</handler-class>
      </handler>      Hope this helps someone else out there :)