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There is no standard way to plug in providers

           Summary: There is no standard way to plug in providers
           Product: Axis
           Version: current (nightly)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Deployment / Registries
        AssignedTo: axis-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: vishy@borland.com
                CC: vishy@borland.com


As AXIS becomes more and more popular, more companies would like to plugin 
different providers. Currently there is no way to dynamically add providers 
without changing the AXIS code deployment/WSDDProvider. 

We need a way where the new provider[s] can be dropped in to lib directory as 
a JAR file and be automatically added to provider list and be available to the 
user. That way, a company specializing in a particular technology say ZZZ can 
provide a axis-ZZZ.jar that will add providers for ZZZ.