Unique Problem: Returning SOAP+ Attachment using a class based webservice

Question

Hi everyone,
Im trying to return a Soap+ attachment response back using the following:
attachDoc(byte[] bdoc, String sTransactionNumber,
               String sRequestedType)
Where byte[] is the attachment and the 2 string parameters are soap message contents.
The attachment is attached successfully to the message and i can send a response back to the clients console using :
message.writeTo(System.out);
My problem is that i dont know how to return this soapmessage+attachment back to the client.
Ive tried using the return type of the method as :
public SOAPMessage attachDoc(byte[] bdoc, String sTransactionNumber,
               String sRequestedType)
but i cant return a SOAPMessage return type in axis.
Does anyone have any clues how i should sort this out so that the client gets the SOAPMessage and attachment when the method is called ?
Please help :S
Thanks,

Answer 1

I dunno if this is what you asked for....
Hope this helps a bit
You may want to check this link out
http://www-unix.globus.org/mail_archive/discuss/2007/02/msg00037.html
MessageContext msgContext = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
File file = new File("filename.txt");
org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentPart replyPart=
new org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentPart(new DataHandler(new
FileDataSource(file)));
Message rspMsg= msgContext.getResponseMessage();
rspMsg.addAttachmentPart(replyPart);
so ur basically adding the file to the reply message.
The link i gave has a better description, it has the entire process of sending file to server and downloading file from server codes.