How to configure @HandlerChain to point to a handler chain configuration file inside a JAR file?

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Is there a way to reference a handler configuration file (e.g.: handler.xml) that is distributed inside a JAR file?

Something like this: @HandlerChain(file="somefile.jar") or @HandlerChain(file="myhandler.xml"), assuming that myhandler.xml is stored in somefile.jar.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '11 at 20:49

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For both server and client implementations of handlers using the @HandlerChain annotation, you must specify the location of the handler configuration as either a relative path from the annotated file or as an absolute URL. For example:

@HandlerChain(file="../../common/handlers/myhandlers.xml")

or

@HandlerChain(file="http://foo.com/myhandlers.xml")

Taken from this doc.

answered Oct 26 '11 at 20:49

Gonzalo Garcia Lasurtegui

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Gonzalo, does it work even if the handler configuration file is inside a JAR included in my `WEB-INF/lib` ? – Joaquim Oliveira Oct 27 '11 at 17:22
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I believe the XML file needs to be in the same jar as the class that is using it, no matter where the jar is located. – Gonzalo Garcia Lasurtegui Oct 27 '11 at 17:28
Gonzalo, my problem is that the XML is in a JAR file, as a dependency (e.g: my-handler.jar), and the web services are part of a webapp that uses this dependency. So, I cannot put the XML file and the classes in the same jar. – Joaquim Oliveira Oct 31 '11 at 18:49
I am not aware of any strategy to read the xml configuration file if it is in another jar – Gonzalo Garcia Lasurtegui Oct 31 '11 at 18:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '13 at 12:41

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handler-chain.xml file must be inside the same classpath or same jar. You need to specify the actual location of xml to load.

answered Jan 31 '13 at 12:41

Vinod Cyriac

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Could you add some resource (manual, wiki, ...) as a reference? – Lorenzo Dematté Jan 31 '13 at 13:02

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 27 '19 at 17:27

If there is no tight dependency on configuration file, you can skip it alltogether and handle everything in the code itself.

List<Handler> handlerChain = new ArrayList<>();
handlerChain.add(new MyHandler());
((BindingProvider) port).getBinding().setHandlerChain(handlerChain);

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 27 '22 at 08:17

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I noticed when creating a jar, xml file was being excluded. So I moved my xml file to

resources/handlers/callbackHandler.xml

and then referred to this file as

@HandlerChain(file = "/handlers/callbackHandler.xml")

answered May 27 '22 at 08:17

Hritik Gupta

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How to configure @HandlerChain to point to a handler chain configuration file inside a JAR file?

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