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svn commit: r448790 - /webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/axis2config.html

Author: deepal
Date: Thu Sep 21 20:51:25 2006
New Revision: 448790

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=448790
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Applying the patch (1209)
Thanks
Evanthika

Modified:
    webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/axis2config.html

Modified: webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/axis2config.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/axis2config.html?view=diff&rev=448790&r1=448789&r2=448790
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-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html>
-<head>
-  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="">
-  <title>Axis2 Configuration Documents</title>
-</head>
-
-<body lang="en">
-<h1>Axis2 Configuration Guide</h1>
-
-<p>In Axis2 there are three kinds of configuration files to configure the
-system. First one is to configure whole system (global configuration), second
-one is to configure a service (service configuration) and the third one is to
-configure a module (module configuration). This document will explain in
-detail the above configurations.</p>
-
-<h2>Content</h2>
-<ul>
-  <li><a href="#Global_Configuration">Global Configuration
-  (axis2.xml)</a></li>
-  <li><a href="#Service_Configuration">Service Configuration
-    (services.xml)</a></li>
-  <li><a href="#Module_Configuration">Module Configuration
-  (module.xml)</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2><a name="Global_Configuration">Global Configuration</a></h2>
-<ul>
-  <li>Writing axis2.xml</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>All the configuration that requires starting axis2 is obtained from
-axis2.xml. The way of specifying them is very simple and easy. The document
-is all about the proper way of specifying the configurations in axis2.xml.
-There are six top level elements that can be seen in the configuration file
-and those can be listed as follows;</p>
-<ul>
-  <li>Parameter</li>
-  <li>Transport Receiver</li>
-  <li>Transport Sender</li>
-  <li>Phase Order</li>
-  <li>Module References</li>
-  <li>Listeners (Observers)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>Parameter </b> <br>
-In axis2 a parameter is nothing but name value pair, each and every top level
-parameter available in the axis2.xml (direct sub elements of root element)
-will be transformed into properties in AxisConfiguration. Therefore the top
-level parameters in configuration document can be accessed via
-AxisConfiguration in the running system. The correct way of defining a
-parameter looks like what is shown below;</p>
-<source><pre> 
-  &lt;parameter name="name of the parameter" &gt;parameter value &lt;/parameter&gt;</pre>
-</source>
-<p><b>Transport Receiver</b><br>
-Depending on the underline transport that axis going to be run , need to have
-different transport receivers so the way of adding them to the system can be
-done as follows;</p>
-<pre> 
-&lt;transportReceiver name="http" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.SimpleHTTPServer"&gt;
-        &lt;parameter name="port" &gt;6060&lt;/parameter&gt;
- &lt;/transportReceiver&gt; 
- </pre>
-</source>The above elements shows the way of defining transport receivers in
-axis2.xml , here name attribute of the 'transportReceiver' element is the
-name of transport it can be http, tcp , smtp , commonshttp stc , and when the
-system starts up or when setting transport at the client side one can use
-these transport names to load the appropriate transport. Class attribute is
-to specify actual java class which implements required interfaces for the
-transport. Any transport can have zero or more parameters, and if there are
-any, then those parameters can be accessed via the corresponding transport
-receiver.
-
-<p><b>Transport Senders</b><br>
-As same as transport receivers it is possible to register transport senders
-in the system, and latter at the run time those senders can be used to send
-the messages. As an example consider Axis2 running under tomcat, then axis
-can use TCP transport senders to send message rather than HTTP. The way of
-specifying transport senders is as follows:</p>
-
-<p><source></p>
-<pre> 
-&lt;transportSender name="http" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender"&gt;
-        &lt;parameter name="PROTOCOL" locked="xsd:false"&gt;HTTP/1.0&lt;/parameter&gt;
- &lt;/transportSender&gt; 
- </pre>
-</source>name: Name of the transport (it is possible to have http and http1
-as transport name) Class: Implementation class of the corresponding
-transport. As same as transport receivers, transport senders can have zero or
-more parameters, and if there is any then it can be accessed via
-corresponding transport sender.
-
-<p><b>Phase Order</b><br>
-The specifying order of phases in execution chain has to be done using phase
-order element and it will be look like below;</p>
-
-<p><source></p>
-<pre>&lt;phaseOrder type="inflow"&gt;
-         &lt;phase name="TransportIn"/&gt;
-         .
-         .
-&lt;/phaseOrder&gt;   </pre>
-</source>The most interesting thing is that you can add handlers here as well
-, if you want to add a handler which should go in to that phase you can
-directly do that by adding a handler element into it . In addition to that
-there is no any hard coding stuffs for handler  chain in anywhere in Axis2
-(at any Axis*) , so all those configuration are also done here in phase order
-element. The complete configuration will look like as follows; <source>
-<pre>&lt;phaseOrder type="inflow"&gt;
-        &lt;!--  System pre defined phases       --&gt;
-         &lt;phase name="Transport"&gt;
-            &lt;handler name="RequestURIBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.RequestURIBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-            &lt;handler name="SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-        &lt;/phase&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="Security"/&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="PreDispatch"/&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="Dispatch" class="org.apache.axis2.engine.DispatchPhase"&gt;
-            &lt;handler name="AddressingBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.AddressingBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-
-            &lt;handler name="SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-            &lt;handler name="InstanceDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.InstanceDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="PostDispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-        &lt;/phase&gt;
-        &lt;!--  System pre defined phases       --&gt;
-        &lt;!--   After Postdispatch phase module author or or service author can add any phase he want      --&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="OperationInPhase"/&gt;
-    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;
-    &lt;phaseOrder type="outflow"&gt;
-        &lt;!--      user can add his own phases to this area  --&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="OperationOutPhase"/&gt;
-        &lt;!--system predefined phase--&gt;
-        &lt;!--these phase will run irrespective of the service--&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="PolicyDetermination"/&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="MessageOut"/&gt;
-    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;
-    &lt;phaseOrder type="INfaultflow"&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="PreDispatch"/&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="Dispatch" class="org.apache.axis2.engine.DispatchPhase"&gt;
-            &lt;handler name="RequestURIBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.RequestURIBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-
-            &lt;handler name="SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-
-            &lt;handler name="AddressingBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.AddressingBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-
-            &lt;handler name="SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-            &lt;handler name="InstanceDispatcher"
-                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.InstanceDispatcher"&gt;
-                &lt;order phase="PostDispatch"/&gt;
-            &lt;/handler&gt;
-        &lt;/phase&gt;
-        &lt;!--      user can add his own phases to this area  --&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="OperationInFaultPhase"/&gt;
-    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;
-    &lt;phaseOrder type="Outfaultflow"&gt;
-        &lt;!--      user can add his own phases to this area  --&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="OperationOutFaultPhase"/&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="PolicyDetermination"/&gt;
-        &lt;phase name="MessageOut"/&gt;
-    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;</pre>
-</source>
-<p>type: the attribute represent type of the flow and which can only be one
-of the following</p>
-<ul>
-  <li>inflow</li>
-  <li>outflow</li>
-  <li>INfaultflow</li>
-  <li>Outfaultflow</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>In addition to that only child element allowed inside pahseOrder is phase
-element, which represents available phases in the execution chain. The way of
-specifying phase inside phaseOrder has to be done as follows;</p>
-
-<p><source></p>
-<pre> &lt;phase name="Transport"/&gt;</pre>
-</source>name: Name of the phase. <br>
-There are number of things that one has to keep in mind when changing
-pahseOrder,
-<ul>
-</ul>
-<ol>
-  there are phases called system pre-defined phases in all four flows;</ol>
-<ol>
-  You are not allowed change those  , and you can add new phase after system
-  pre-defined phase</ol>
-<ol>
-  If you closely look at the default axis2.xml can clearly identify that.</ol>
-
-<p><b>Module References</b><br>
-If you want to engage a module system wide you can do it by adding top level
-module element in axis2.xml.  It should be look like following:</p>
-
-<p><source></p>
-<pre>&lt;module ref="addressing"/&gt;  </pre>
-</source>ref: the module name which is going to be engage, system wide.
-
-<p><strong>Listeners (Observers)</strong></p>
-
-<p>In Axis2 AxisConfiguration is observable so that one can register
-observers into that, and they will be automatically informed whenever a
-change occurs in AxisConfiuration. In the current implementation the
-observers are informed of the following events</p>
-<ul>
-  <li>Deploying a Service</li>
-  <li>Removing a service</li>
-  <li>Activate/Inactivate Service</li>
-  <li>Module deploy</li>
-  <li>Module remove</li>
-</ul>
-Registering Observers is very useful for additional features such as RSS feed
-generation which will provide service information to subscribers. The correct
-way of registering observers should be like below; <source>
-<pre>&lt;listener class="org.apache.axis2.ObserverIMPL"&gt;
-    &lt;parameter name="RSS_URL" &gt;http://127.0.0.1/rss&lt;/parameter&gt;
-  &lt;/listener&gt;</pre>
-</source>class: Represent an Implementation class of observer, and it should
-be note that the implementation class should implement AxisObserver
-interface, and the class has to be available in the classpath. <a
-name="Service_Configuration"></a>
-
-<h2><font>Service Configuration</font></h2>
-<ul>
-  <li><font>Writing services.xml</font></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><font>The description of service is specified using services.xml, each
-service archive file need to have services.xml in order to be a valid
-service. And which has to be available in META-INF directory of the archive
-file. <br>
-A very simple services.xml is shown below:</font></p>
-<source><pre><font>&lt;service name="name of the service" scope="name of the scope" targetNamespace="target namespase for the service"&gt;
-    &lt;description&gt; The description of the service  &lt;/description&gt;  
-
-    &lt;transports&gt; 
-       &lt;transport&gt;HTTP&lt;/transport&gt;
-    &lt;/transports&gt;
-    
-    &lt;schema schemaNamespace="schema namespace"/&gt; 
-     
-    &lt;messageReceivers&gt;
-            &lt;messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out"
-                             class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver"/&gt;
-    &lt;/messageReceivers&gt;
-     
-     &lt;parameter name="ServiceClass"     locked="xsd:false"&gt;org.apache.axis2.sample.echo.EchoImpl&lt;/parameter&gt;
-    
-    &lt;operation name="echoString" mep="operation MEP"&gt; 
-        &lt;actionMapping&gt;Mapping to action&lt;/actionMapping&gt;
-        &lt;module ref=" a module name "/&gt;
-        &lt;messageReceiver class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver"/&gt;
-    &lt;/operation&gt;
-  &lt;/service&gt;</font></pre>
-</source><font><em><strong>name</strong></em>: the service name will be the
-name of the archive file if the .aar file contains only one service else name
-of the service will be the name given by the name attribute</font>
-
-<p><em><strong>scope</strong></em> : Scope that the service need to be
-deployed and scope can be one of
-"Application","SOAPSession","TransportSession","Request";</p>
-
-<p><em><strong>targetNamespace</strong></em> : Target name space of the
-service , and this value will be used when generation wsdl</p>
-
-<p></p>
-
-<p><font><strong>description</strong>: This is an optional element if you
-want to display any description about the service via Axis2 web-admin module
-then the description can be specified here.</font></p>
-
-<p><strong>transports</strong> : The transports that the service is going to
-be exposed , this is an optional element . If the transports element is not
-present then the service will be exposed in every transports available in the
-system. The transport child element is to specify the transport prefix (the
-name of the transport specified in axis2.xml)</p>
-
-<p><b>Parameter:</b><br>
-services.xml can have any number of top level parameters and all the
-specified parameters will be transformed into service properties in
-corresponding AxisService. There is a compulsory parameter in a services.xml
-called ServiceClass which specify the java class which really does the job
-and the class will be loaded by MessageReceiver.</p>
-
-<p><b>Operations</b><br>
-If the service impl class is java then all the public methods in that service
-will be exposed and if user wants to override then he has to add operation
-tag and override that . In the case of Non-Java case or if you does not have
-service class then all the operations user wants to expose by the service has
-to be indicated in the services.xml and the correct way of specifying that
-should be as follows:</p>
-<pre>    &lt;operation name="echoString"&gt;
-        &lt;module ref=" a module name "/&gt;
-        &lt;messageReceiver class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver"/&gt;
-    &lt;/operation&gt;</pre>
-</source>Only compulsory attribute here is name, which represent the
-operation name that is going to be exposed. Any operation can contains module
-references, any number of parameters. The most interesting is that one can
-register custom message receiver per operation, then the registered message
-receiver will be the message receiver for the corresponding operation. If one
-does not specify the message receiver then the default message receiver will
-do the job. <br>
-<a name="Module_Configuration"></a>
-
-<h2>Module Configuration</h2>
-<ul>
-  <li>Writing module.xml</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The description of module is specified using module.xml, each module
-archive file need to have module.xml in order to be a valid module. And which
-has to be available in META-INF directory of the archive file. <br>
-A very simple module.xml is shown below:</p>
-
-<p><source></p>
-<pre>&lt;module class="org.apache.module.Module1Impl"&gt;
-    &lt;inflow&gt;
-        .
-        .
-    &lt;/inflow&gt;
-    &lt;outflow&gt;
-        .
-        .
-    &lt;/outflow&gt;
-
-    &lt;Outfaultflow&gt;
-        .   
-        .
-    &lt;/Outfaultflow&gt;
-
-    &lt;INfaultflow&gt;
-        .         
-        .
-    &lt;/INfaultflow&gt;
-
-    &lt;operation name="creatSeq" mep="MEP_URI_IN_OUT"&gt;
-        &lt;messageReceiver class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver"/&gt;
-        &lt;parameter name="para1" locked="xsd:true"&gt;10&lt;/parameter&gt;
-    &lt;/operation&gt;
-&lt;/module&gt;</pre>
-</source>class: This is an optional attribute which indicate module
-implementation class, a module may or may not contain module implementation
-class since the module can also be a collection of handlers. If a module
-contains an implementation class which implements the
-org.apache.axis2.modules.Module interface where at the deployment time its
-init(); method will be called.
-
-<p><b>parameter:</b> Module can contains any number of parameters and all the
-listed parameters in the module.xml will be transformed into corresponding
-AxisModule of the module.</p>
-
-<p><b>Flow :</b></p>
-
-<p>Defining of handlers in a module has to done inside Flows , and there are
-four types of flows as listed below.</p>
-
-<p>It is possible to add any number of handlers into a flow and those
-handlers will be available in corresponding chains at the runtime when they
-engaged .</p>
-<ul>
-  <li>Inflow</li>
-  <li>outflow</li>
-  <li>INfaultflow</li>
-  <li>Outfaultflow</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>operations</b> If a module wants to add an operation when it is engaged
-into a service it can be done by adding operation tag in module.xml and the
-way of specifying the operation is same as operation in services.xml.</p>
-
-<p><b>Handler</b><br>
-Handler element consists of compulsory and optional attribute and the way of
-defining a handler will be look like follows;</p>
-
-<p><source></p>
-<pre>&lt;handler name="handler1" class="handlerClass "&gt;
-            &lt;order phase="userphase1" /&gt;
- &lt;/handler&gt;</pre>
-</source>
-<p><b><i>Compulsory attributes</i></b> <br>
-name: name of the handler<br>
-class: handler implementation class<br>
-phase: name of the phase that the handler should stay in the execution chain
-<br>
-<br>
-<i><b>Optional attributes :</b></i><br>
-phaseLast: to indicate the handler is last handler of the phase<br>
-phaseFirst: to indicate the handler is first handler of the phase.<br>
-before : the handler should be invoked before the handler specified by before
-handler<br>
-after:  the handler should be invoked after the handler specified by after
-handler<br>
-</p>
-
-<p><br>
-</p>
-</body>
-</html>
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="">
+  <title>Axis2 Configuration Documents</title>
+</head>
+
+<body lang="en">
+<h1>Axis2 Configuration Guide</h1>
+
+<p>In Axis2 there are three kinds of configuration files to configure the
+system. First one is to configure whole system (global configuration), second
+one is to configure a service (service configuration) and the third one is to
+configure a module (module configuration). This document will explain in
+detail the above configurations.</p>
+
+<h2>Content</h2>
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="#Global_Configuration">Global Configuration
+  (axis2.xml)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="#Service_Configuration">Service Configuration
+    (services.xml)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="#Module_Configuration">Module Configuration
+  (module.xml)</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2><a name="Global_Configuration">Global Configuration</a></h2>
+<ul>
+  <li>Writing axis2.xml</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>All the configurations that require starting axis2 is obtained from the
+axis2.xml. The way of specifying them is very simple and easy. The document
+is all about the proper way of specifying the configurations in axis2.xml.
+There are six top level elements that can be seen in the configuration file
+and those can be listed as follows;</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Parameter</li>
+  <li>Transport Receiver</li>
+  <li>Transport Sender</li>
+  <li>Phase Order</li>
+  <li>Module References</li>
+  <li>Listeners (Observers)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Parameter </b> <br>
+In axis2 a parameter is nothing but name value pair, each and every top level
+parameter available in the axis2.xml (direct sub elements of root element)
+will be transformed into properties in AxisConfiguration. Therefore the top
+level parameters in the configuration document can be accessed via
+AxisConfiguration in the running system. The correct way of defining a
+parameter looks like what is shown below;</p>
+<source><pre> 
+  &lt;parameter name="name of the parameter" &gt;parameter value &lt;/parameter&gt;</pre>
+</source>
+<p><b>Transport Receiver</b><br>
+Depending on the underline transport that axis is going to be run on, you need to have
+different transport receivers so the way of adding them to the system can be
+done as follows;</p>
+<pre> 
+&lt;transportReceiver name="http" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.SimpleHTTPServer"&gt;
+        &lt;parameter name="port" &gt;6060&lt;/parameter&gt;
+ &lt;/transportReceiver&gt; 
+ </pre>
+</source>The above elements shows the way of defining transport receivers in
+axis2.xml. Here the name attribute of the 'transportReceiver' element is the
+name of transport receiver. It can be http, tcp, smtp, commonshttp stc and when the
+system starts up or when setting transport at the client side, one can use
+these transport names to load the appropriate transport. Class attribute is
+to specify actual java classes which implements required interfaces for the
+transport. Any transport can have zero or more parameters, and if there are
+any, then those parameters can be accessed via the corresponding transport
+receiver.
+
+<p><b>Transport Senders</b><br>
+As same as transport receivers, it is possible to register transport senders
+in the system, and latter at the run time those senders can be used to send
+the messages. As an example, consider Axis2 running under tomcat. Then axis
+can use TCP transport senders to send messages rather than HTTP. The way of
+specifying transport senders is as follows:</p>
+
+<p><source></p>
+<pre> 
+&lt;transportSender name="http" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender"&gt;
+        &lt;parameter name="PROTOCOL" locked="xsd:false"&gt;HTTP/1.0&lt;/parameter&gt;
+ &lt;/transportSender&gt; 
+ </pre>
+</source><strong>name:</strong> Name of the transport (it is possible to have http and http1
+as transport name) 
+
+<p><strong>class:</strong> Implementation class of the corresponding
+transport. As same as transport receivers, transport senders can have zero or
+more parameters, and if there is any then it can be accessed via
+corresponding transport sender.</p>
+
+<p><b>Phase Order</b><br>
+The specifying order of phases in execution chain has to be done using phase
+order element and it will look like below;</p>
+
+<p><source></p>
+<pre>&lt;phaseOrder type="inflow"&gt;
+         &lt;phase name="TransportIn"/&gt;
+         .
+         .
+&lt;/phaseOrder&gt;   </pre>
+</source>The most interesting thing is that you can add handlers here as well. If you want to add a handler which should go in to that phase you can
+directly do that by adding a handler element into it. In addition to that
+there is no hard coding stuff for the handler chain anywhere in Axis2
+(at any Axis*). So all those configurations are also done in the phase order
+element. The complete configurations will look as follows; <source>
+<pre>&lt;phaseOrder type="inflow"&gt;
+        &lt;!--   Global phases    --&gt;
+         &lt;phase name="Transport"&gt;
+            &lt;handler name="RequestURIBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.RequestURIBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Transport"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+
+            &lt;handler name="SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Transport"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+        &lt;/phase&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="Security"/&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="PreDispatch"/&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="Dispatch" class="org.apache.axis2.engine.DispatchPhase"&gt;
+            &lt;handler name="AddressingBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.AddressingBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+
+            &lt;handler name="SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+
+            &lt;handler name="InstanceDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.InstanceDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+        &lt;/phase&gt;
+        &lt;!--   Global phases   --&gt;
+        &lt;!--   After the Dispatch phase module author or service author can add any phase he wants    --&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="OperationInPhase"/&gt;
+    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;
+    &lt;phaseOrder type="outflow"&gt;
+        &lt;!--   user can add his own phases to this area  --&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="OperationOutPhase"/&gt;
+        &lt;!--  Global phases  --&gt;
+        &lt;!--  these phases will run irrespective of the service  --&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="MessageOut"/&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="PolicyDetermination"/&gt;
+    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;
+    &lt;phaseOrder type="INfaultflow"&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="PreDispatch"/&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="Dispatch" class="org.apache.axis2.engine.DispatchPhase"&gt;
+            &lt;handler name="RequestURIBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.RequestURIBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+
+            &lt;handler name="SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPActionBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+
+            &lt;handler name="AddressingBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.AddressingBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+
+            &lt;handler name="SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.SOAPMessageBodyBasedDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+            &lt;handler name="InstanceDispatcher"
+                     class="org.apache.axis2.engine.InstanceDispatcher"&gt;
+                &lt;order phase="Dispatch"/&gt;
+            &lt;/handler&gt;
+        &lt;/phase&gt;
+        &lt;!--      user can add his own phases to this area  --&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="OperationInFaultPhase"/&gt;
+    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;
+    &lt;phaseOrder type="Outfaultflow"&gt;
+        &lt;!--      user can add his own phases to this area  --&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="OperationOutFaultPhase"/&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="PolicyDetermination"/&gt;
+        &lt;phase name="MessageOut"/&gt;
+    &lt;/phaseOrder&gt;</pre>
+</source>
+<p><strong>type:</strong> the attribute represent type of the flow and which can only be one
+of the following</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>inflow</li>
+  <li>outflow</li>
+  <li>INfaultflow</li>
+  <li>Outfaultflow</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>In addition to that the only child element allowed inside "phaseOrder" is "phase" element, which represents available phases in the execution chain. The way of
+specifying phases inside "phaseOrder" has to be done as follows;</p>
+
+<p><source></p>
+<pre> &lt;phase name="Transport"/&gt;</pre>
+</source><strong>name:</strong> Name of the phase. <br>
+There are a number of things that one has to keep in mind when changing a
+phaseOrder,
+<ul>
+</ul>
+<p>For the phaseOrder types <strong>"inflow"</strong> and <strong>"INfaultflow"</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li> All the phases which are above the "Dispatch" phase, including the "Dispatch" phase are known as "Global phases" and one can <em></em>
+add any number of new phases here and these will be concidered global.</li>
+<li> In these two phaseOrder types, the phases added after the "Dispatch" phase are known as "Operation phases".</li>
+</ul>
+<p>For the phaseOrder types <strong>"outflow"</strong> and <strong>"Outfaultflow"</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li> All the phases which are below the "MessageOut" phase, including the "MessageOut" phase are known as "Global phases" and you can <em></em>
+add new phases according to your requirement.</li>
+<li> The phases added before the "MessageOut" phase are known as "Operation phases".</li>
+<p><strong>Note :</strong> If you closely look at the default axis2.xml you will be able to clearly identify that.</li></p>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Module References</b><br>
+If you want to engage a module system wide you can do it by adding top level
+module element in axis2.xml.  It should look like following:</p>
+
+<p><source></p>
+<pre>&lt;module ref="addressing"/&gt;  </pre>
+</source><strong>ref:</strong> the module name which is going to be engage, system wide.
+
+<p><strong>Listeners (Observers)</strong></p>
+
+<p>In Axis2, AxisConfiguration is observable so that one can register
+observers into that, and they will be automatically informed whenever a
+change occurs in AxisConfiguration. In the current implementation, the
+observers are informed of the following events</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Deploying a Service</li>
+  <li>Removing a service</li>
+  <li>Activate/Inactivate Service</li>
+  <li>Module deploy</li>
+  <li>Module remove</li>
+</ul>
+Registering Observers is very useful for additional features such as RSS feed
+generation which will provide service information to subscribers. The correct
+way of registering observers should be like below; <source>
+<pre>&lt;listener class="org.apache.axis2.ObserverIMPL"&gt;
+    &lt;parameter name="RSS_URL" &gt;http://127.0.0.1/rss&lt;/parameter&gt;
+  &lt;/listener&gt;</pre>
+</source><strong>class:</strong> Represent an Implementation class of observer, and it should
+be note that the implementation class should implement AxisObserver
+interface, and the class has to be available in the classpath. <a
+name="Service_Configuration"></a>
+
+<h2><font>Service Configuration</font></h2>
+<ul>
+  <li><font>Writing services.xml</font></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><font>The description of services are specified using services.xml. Each
+service archive file needs to have a services.xml in order to be a valid
+service and it should be available in the META-INF directory of the archive
+file. <br>
+A very simple services.xml is shown below:</font></p>
+<source><pre><font>&lt;service name="name of the service" scope="name of the scope" targetNamespace="target namespase for the service"&gt;
+    &lt;description&gt; The description of the service  &lt;/description&gt;  
+
+    &lt;transports&gt; 
+       &lt;transport&gt;HTTP&lt;/transport&gt;
+    &lt;/transports&gt;
+    
+    &lt;schema schemaNamespace="schema namespace"/&gt; 
+     
+    &lt;messageReceivers&gt;
+            &lt;messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out"
+                             class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver"/&gt;
+    &lt;/messageReceivers&gt;
+     
+     &lt;parameter name="ServiceClass"     locked="xsd:false"&gt;org.apache.axis2.sample.echo.EchoImpl&lt;/parameter&gt;
+    
+    &lt;operation name="echoString" mep="operation MEP"&gt; 
+        &lt;actionMapping&gt;Mapping to action&lt;/actionMapping&gt;
+        &lt;module ref=" a module name "/&gt;
+        &lt;messageReceiver class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver"/&gt;
+    &lt;/operation&gt;
+  &lt;/service&gt;</font></pre>
+</source><font><strong>name</strong>: the service name will be the
+name of the archive file if the .aar file contains only one service else name
+of the service will be the name given by the name attribute</font>
+
+<p><strong>scope</strong>: Scope that the service need to be
+deployed and it can be one of the following:
+"Application","SOAPSession","TransportSession","Request";</p>
+
+<p><strong>targetNamespace</strong>: Target name space of the
+service , and this value will be used when generating the wsdl</p>
+
+<p></p>
+
+<p><font><strong>description</strong>: This is an optional element if you
+want to display any description about the service via Axis2 web-admin module
+then the description can be specified here.</font></p>
+
+<p><strong>transports</strong> : The transports that the service is going to
+be exposed. This is an optional element. If the transport element is not
+present then the service will be exposed in all the transports available in the
+system. The transport child element is there to specify the transport prefix (the
+name of the transport specified in axis2.xml)</p>
+
+<p><b>parameters:</b>
+A services.xml can have any number of top level parameters and all the
+specified parameters will be transformed into service properties in
+corresponding AxisService. There is a compulsory parameter in a services.xml
+called ServiceClass which specifies the java class which really does the job
+and the class will be loaded by the MessageReceiver.</p>
+
+<p><b>operations :</b>
+If the service impl class is java, then all the public methods in that service
+will be exposed and if the user wants to override it then he has to add the "operation"
+tag and override that. In the case of Non-Java or if you do not have a
+service class then all the operations the user wants to expose by the service has
+to be indicated in the services.xml and the correct way of specifying that
+should be as follows:</p>
+<pre>    &lt;operation name="echoString"&gt;
+        &lt;module ref=" a module name "/&gt;
+        &lt;messageReceiver class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver"/&gt;
+    &lt;/operation&gt;</pre>
+</source>The only compulsory attribute here is "name", which represents the
+operation name that is going to be exposed. Any operation can contain module
+references as well as any number of parameters. The most interesting thing is that one can
+register custom message receivers per operation, then the registered message
+receiver will be the message receiver for the corresponding operation. If one
+does not specify the message receiver, then the default message receiver will
+do the job. <br>
+<a name="Module_Configuration"></a>
+
+<h2>Module Configuration</h2>
+<ul>
+  <li>Writing module.xml</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The description of the module is specified using the module.xml. Each module
+archive file need to have a module.xml in order to be a valid module and it should be available in the META-INF directory of the archive file. <br>
+A very simple module.xml is shown below:</p>
+
+<p><source></p>
+<pre>&lt;module class="org.apache.module.Module1Impl"&gt;
+    &lt;inflow&gt;
+        .
+        .
+    &lt;/inflow&gt;
+    &lt;outflow&gt;
+        .
+        .
+    &lt;/outflow&gt;
+
+    &lt;Outfaultflow&gt;
+        .   
+        .
+    &lt;/Outfaultflow&gt;
+
+    &lt;INfaultflow&gt;
+        .         
+        .
+    &lt;/INfaultflow&gt;
+
+    &lt;operation name="creatSeq" mep="MEP_URI_IN_OUT"&gt;
+        &lt;messageReceiver class="org.apache.axis2.receivers.RawXMLINOutMessageReceiver"/&gt;
+        &lt;parameter name="para1" locked="xsd:true"&gt;10&lt;/parameter&gt;
+    &lt;/operation&gt;
+&lt;/module&gt;</pre>
+</source><strong>class:</strong> This is an optional attribute which indicates the module
+implementation class. A module may or may not contain a module implementation
+class since the module can also be a collection of handlers. If a module
+contains an implementation class which implements the
+org.apache.axis2.modules.Module interface where at the deployment time its
+init(); method will be called.
+
+<p><b>parameter:</b> A module can contain any number of parameters and all the
+listed parameters in the module.xml will be transformed into corresponding
+AxisModule of the module.</p>
+
+<p><b>flow: </b>Defining of handlers in a module has to be done inside Flows, and there are
+four types of flows as listed below.</p>
+
+<p>It is possible to add any number of handlers into a flow and those
+handlers will be available in corresponding chains at the runtime when they are
+engaged .</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>inflow</li>
+  <li>outflow</li>
+  <li>INfaultflow</li>
+  <li>Outfaultflow</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>operations: </b> If a module wants to add an operation when it is engaged
+into a service it can be done by adding operation tag in module.xml and the
+way of specifying the operation is same as operation in services.xml.</p>
+
+<p><b>handler:</b> The Handler element consists of compulsory and optional attributes and the way of
+defining a handler will look as follows;</p>
+
+<p><source></p>
+<pre>&lt;handler name="handler1" class="handlerClass "&gt;
+            &lt;order phase="userphase1" /&gt;
+ &lt;/handler&gt;</pre>
+</source>
+<p><b><i>Compulsory attributes</i></b> <br>
+<b>name:</b> name of the handler<br>
+<b>class:</b> handler implementation class<br>
+<b>phase:</b> name of the phase that the handler should stay in the execution chain
+<br>
+<br>
+<i><b>Optional attributes :</b></i><br>
+<b>phaseLast:</b> to indicate the handler is last handler of the phase<br>
+<b>phaseFirst:</b> to indicate the handler is first handler of the phase.<br>
+<b>before :</b> the handler should be invoked before the handler specified by before
+handler<br>
+<b>after:</b>  the handler should be invoked after the handler specified by after
+handler<br>
+</p>
+
+<p><br>
+</p>
+</body>
+</html>



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