Custom Service class (loading providers)

["Bono, Chris" <ch...@zilliant.com>]

In RPCRouterServlet.doPost() the provider is loaded as shown below:
<snip>
     Provider provider;
        if ( dd.getProviderType() == DeploymentDescriptor.PROVIDER_JAVA ) {
          // Handle Java based services
          provider = new org.apache.soap.providers.RPCJavaProvider();
        } else if (dd.getProviderType() ==
                   DeploymentDescriptor.PROVIDER_USER_DEFINED) {
          // Handle user-defined providers
          provider = ServerUtils.loadProvider(dd);
        } else {
          // Handle scripts
          provider = new org.apache.soap.providers.RPCJavaProvider();
        }
</snip>

I am interested in using a custom Service class to load the provider, as
advertised in DeploymentDescriptor.setServiceClass(). However, the above
code seems to ignore using a custom service class to load the provider when
it is a DeploymentDescriptor.PROVIDER_USER_DEFINED type. My plans are to
modify the 
          provider = ServerUtils.loadProvider(dd); into
          provider = loadProvider(dd);
where loadProvider uses the custom service class to load the provider. My
problem is that ServerUtils.loadProvider creates a new instance every call
and I would like to cache my provider. 

Any ideas or comments are greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Chris Bono
bonoc@zilliant.com
512.531.8518
http://www.zilliant.com