How to read parameter in WebService

Question

hello, i am new to webservices and i want to pass a parameter to my webservice.
i declared a parameter "myname" in my wsdd file:
<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"
    xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">
  <service name="TestService" provider="java:RPC">
    <parameter name="className" value="testService.TestService"/>
    <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/>
    <parameter name="myname" value="myvalue"/>
  </service>
</deployment>how can i read this parameter in my webservice classes?

Answer 1

Hi,
Here is an incomplete answer for our problem that works for me, but is unfortunately not enough because it is not specific to one webservice but to the whole axis server...
This is certainly not the official way to do it (don't even know if there is any one) but hey...
Okay, you have first to open the web.xml file under the following directory on my computer, I let you find yours ;)
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\web.xml
BEFORE any <servlet> tag, add this:
<context-param>
   <param-name>myParamName</param-name>
   <param-value>myParamValue</param-value>
</context-param>then in the java code, in the init function of the ServiceLifeCycle, use the context Object passed as parameter like this:
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.xml.rpc.server.ServletEndpointContext;
public void init(Object context){
ServletContext sc = ((ServletEndpointContext)context).getServletContext();
String myParamValue = sc.getInitParameter("myParamName");
}There you go (works for me)!
As I said, I really hope It is possible to specify such a parameter Value for a given webservice because currently this is a very global declaration and it is not easy to modify it. The best way of doing it would be to put the thing in the wsdd file!
Hope that help!
Don't hesitate to post anything new if you find something, that would help me too!