Is wss4j what I am looking for?(axis ws-security handlers?)

[Maciek Zywno <m....@amg.net.pl>]

Hello

I am using apache axis for my web services. I am now exploring axis 
security support in axis in context of  ws-security specification. 
Probably wss4j is a more general java api to play with soap messages and 
as such does not integrate well with axis? Am I wrong or it does have 
some jax-rpc/axis handlers that I can use out of the box with axis to 
support ws-security?

I mean.. to incorporate ws-security to my web services in axis, should I 
write my own axis handlers that use wss4j? Do you know whether there is 
possibly any other project that develop jax-rpc/axis handlers that uses 
wss4j and as such adds an additional layer on wss4j to use it easily in 
axis.

Hope my problem is not totally unclear :)
Thanks for any hints!

Re: Is wss4j what I am looking for?(axis ws-security handlers?)

[Maciek Zywno <m....@amg.net.pl>]

Maciek Zywno wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am using apache axis for my web services. I am now exploring axis 
> security support in axis in context of  ws-security specification. 
> Probably wss4j is a more general java api to play with soap messages 
> and as such does not integrate well with axis? Am I wrong or it does 
> have some jax-rpc/axis handlers that I can use out of the box with 
> axis to support ws-security?
>
> I mean.. to incorporate ws-security to my web services in axis, should 
> I write my own axis handlers that use wss4j? Do you know whether there 
> is possibly any other project that develop jax-rpc/axis handlers that 
> uses wss4j and as such adds an additional layer on wss4j to use it 
> easily in axis.
>
> Hope my problem is not totally unclear :)
> Thanks for any hints!

Ok, so I digged a bit into the source. WSS4J is definitely what I was 
looking for :)
My only concern is whether is it a real interoperable solution... what I 
found in wss4j description :

"WSS4J will use Apache Axis and Apache XML-Security projects and will be 
interoperable with JAX-RPC based server/clients and .NET server/clients."

Does it mean that if I use axis handlers shipped with WSS4J my service 
would not worj with other clients?

Best regards

Maciek