Header Processing is required

[Yuhichi Nakamura <NA...@jp.ibm.com>]

Hello,
I am a new comer of this mailing list.  Although I took a look at the archive,
the subject has not been discussed yet.
If it has been discussed, please let me know the conclusion (the archive has not
been working since I joined this mailing list.)

Anyway, the problem I have in Apache SOAP is that there is no means to process
header entries before sending a message.
In other words, as soon as I invoke Call.invoke, SOAP message is silently
serialized to send to the destination.  (Is it right?)
We are considering a digital signature for SOAP envelope, and the signature
itself is added as a header entry.
We have already discussed as the following:
http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A1=ind0006&L=soap#127
And we have got fairly good reactions.

I guess that different kinds of header entries will be defined in a future,
therefore header processing components will be provided.
Ultimately, a plug-in architecture should be provided.  However, as a first
step, it might be a good idea to allow developers
to process headers even in an ad-hoc way.

Yuhichi