When does the service implementation get instantiated?

[Eric Webb <er...@collectivegenius.net>]

Hello all,

I have a quick question.  I have a service implementation that needs 
access to the HttpSession to complete it's business functions.  (Not the 
best design you see, business logic tied to the web tier, but it was all 
done before I got here)  :)   So, somehow I need the session to get into 
the service implementation.  I know that one way to accomplish this is 
to inside the service implementation, get the MessageContext and pull 
the request/session from there.  The only (small) qualm i have with that 
is that it ties my implementation to Axis. 

What i want to do is (and don't know if it's possible) is have a request 
handler "inject" the session into the service impl by calling its 
setHttpSession method.  Is this possible?  I have looked all around the 
MessageContext object (in the source and at runtime) but I don't see an 
instance of the service implementation class that i can manipulate.  I 
can get the Class object, but not an instance itself.  Is the 
implementation not instantiated until later down the processing line?

Thanks soo much for your help.  This is my first stint into web 
services, and it is quite exciting.  Thanks for all your hard work.

cheers,
eric