Make it possible to access and change web service options on client side

[Nicklas Nordborg]

The current implementation of the client-side of the web services lacks a way to access specific configuration options. This may be needed to avoid problems with local network setup, proxies, etc. There are a lot of possible options in the Axis API so we need this functionality to be as open as possible.

To be specific the AbstractRPCClient.getService() method creates an Axis object on which users may want to call getOptions() to change some of the default options. With the current BASE API the only workaround that doesn't involve changing the BASE code is to subclass all AbstractRPCClient subclasses and override the getService() method. This is not very elegent since there are several such classes and the new getService() will be added to each one of them.

A better approach may be to create a ServiceFactory interface which has a createService() method. The default implementation would then work as the AbstractRPCClient.getService() does today. The last step is to figure out a way to switch to another ServiceFactory implementation either by having a configuration file or by being able to specify it programmatically.

More information about a specific problem can be found in the mailing list archive: ​http://www.mail-archive.com/basedb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00309.html

[Nicklas Nordborg]

(In [4398]) Fixes #1057: Make it possible to access and change web service options on client side

[Nicklas Nordborg]

(In [4399]) References #1057: Make it possible to access and change web service options on client side

Removed unused import statements.

[Nicklas Nordborg]

(In [4410]) References #1057: Make it possible to access and change web service options on client side

Adding Pawel to the list of contributers.