Before you begin
This topic explains how to use the Assembly Toolkit to configure the webservices.xml deployment descriptor for user-provided Handler classes. The Assembly Toolkit is a component of the Application Server Toolkit. For more information about completing tasks with the Assembly Toolkit, click Help > Help in the Assembly Toolkit graphical user interface (GUI).
You should have an enterprise archive (EAR) file for the applications you want to configure. For some handler use, such as logging or tracing, only the server or client application needs to be configured. For other handler use, including sending information in SOAP headers, the client and server applications must be configured with symmetrical handlers.
The modules in the EAR file should contain the handler classes being configured. These classes implement the javax.xml.rpc.handler.Handler interface. For more information on writing handler classes, see Chapter 6 of the Web Services for J2EE 1.0 specification and chapter 12 of the JAX-RPC 1.0 specification available through Web services: Resources for learning. The application modules must contain the webservices.xml deployment descriptor.
Why and when to perform this task
To configure a handler in the webservices.xml deployment descriptor:
Steps for this task