Today I am going to discuss about what happens to a message come in to an axis2 engine. Here is a pictorial representation of what is happening inside an axis2 engine. The key functionality of any given web service framework is processing an incoming message and delivering it to the targeted application (service), and once the result is produced, delivering it to the client. Today, for business critical applications, we need a lot more than just processing the messages. Thus, support, for example reliability, security, transactions, and throttling is required. In addition, a framework should also be easily extensible to support new customer requirements and other quality services. To provide those features, most of the SOAP processing frameworks utilize the concept of pipes, where any incoming or outgoing message goes through the pipe and the extensible pipe is divided into small pieces. Such a piece is known as an interceptor. One can add new interceptors, change them, or delete ...
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