Handlers for JAX-wS web services

Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite now supports JAX-WS handlers to implement security for JAX-WS web services.

How it affects you

In Release 9.2, handlers are applied to JAX-WS web services by default. This is a change in backward compatibility.

Migration strategy

Until you have decided whether you want to implement use of JAX-WS handlers and whether you plan to use custom handlers or the default handlers, you may want to suppress handler use.

Automated migration processes

None.

Manual migration processes

If you do not want to use this new functionality, you can set a new sandbox.cfg variable, SUPPRESS_JAXWS_HANDLERS, to "true". The sandbox property gets munged into an <INSTALL_DIR>/bin/build.properties property jaxws.suppress.handlers. This property is read and acted upon by both the ear build script and the JAX-WS client generation script.

A default implementation of the handlers is provided, but you can plug in your own customized handler chain xml and classes.