Handler chain file - validation files

Question

Hi Everyone,
I have webservice where I would like to log all SOAP messages. Back in the WebLogic 8.1 days the developer merely specified an annotation to a soap handler like this:
* @editor-info:link autogen-style="java" autogen="false"
* @jws:handler operation="foo.utils.soaphandlers.BARHandler"
During the WebLogic 10.3 upgrade/import process this annotation disappeared. I am thus trying to restore this link to BARHandler. So... following this documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/web.1111/e13734/handlers.htm#i261458
I add an annotation:
@HandlerChain(file="bar_handler.xml")
and created XML...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<handler-chains xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
<handler-chain>
<handler>
<handler-class>foo.utils.soaphandlers.BARHandler</handler-class>
</handler>
</handler-chain>
</handler-chains>
BARHandler is a modern SOAP handler I know works in another context...
package foo.utils.soaphandlers;
...snip...
public class BARHandler implements SOAPHandler<SOAPMessageContext>
...snip...
Everything seems to go fairly well, until my <jwsc> task in build.xml blows up with this error (re-spaced for reading):
build.xml:123: weblogic.wsee.tools.WsBuildException: JWS Validation failed:
[Handler chain file validation error for file:
file:/path/src/foo/webservice/bar_handler.xml.
Element handler-chains@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee is not a valid
   handler-config@http://www.bea.com/xml/ns/jws document or
     a valid substitution.,
Handler chain file validation error for file:
file:/path/src/foo/webservice/bar_handler.xml.
Element handler-chains@http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee is not a valid
   handler-config@http://www.bea.com/xml/ns/jws document or
     a valid substitution.]
I worked all day searching for an answer, but no luck so far. I also feel like the gremlins are mocking me! Not only does the validation error repeat twice but the first sentence of JSR 181 specification says all of this is "a simplified programming model". Alas, for me, it hasn't be so "simple" :(
Thanks a bunch for reading and if you reply I will be very grateful!
Cheers,
-Randy

Answer 1

Hello Randy -
Please check the following thread.
Validation Error in the JWS
Regards,
Justin.