Re: accesing data

My summary: you want to access a text file from the constructor for your 
service class, and you are wondering how you can put the name of the file in 
configuration data the can be accessed from the constructor.  Is that right?

Nothing is provided in the Apache SOAP framework to help you do exactly what I 
have stated above.  In all versions, you would have the alternative of having 
an initialization method called from each of your methods, i.e. lazy 
initialization.  Your methods would each have the SOAPContext parameter for you 
to access the deployment descriptor or servlet initialization information.

Added to the current code after the 2.3.1 release, your service class can also 
implement the ConfigurableService interface.  The configure method on this 
interface is called once per instance of the service, immediately after the 
constructor.  This method receives webapp, servlet and deployment descriptor 
initialization values in Hashtables.  With post-2.3.1 code, this is the 
preferred method for initializing services.

Scott Nichol

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tizo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <soap-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 6:41 PM
Subject: accesing data


Hi,

I am implementing a service with SOAP RPC (with application scope), and
I would like to know how can I access a text file from it. I have read from
the list, that there is a way to do that putting the data in the deploymenent
descriptor, and then accessing it with SOAPContext, but I need the data
in the constructor of the service. How could I do that? I had though in
an environment variable too, but it's not portable, and Java don't allow
to read them.

Thanks very much,

Tizo