Defining handlers

A handler definition can be added to a Web service provided the handler class has already been deployed or installed in the server, as described above.The WST development tool and the Web console have menu options to add a handler from the Handlers folder, and set necessary properties for the handler. A request and response handler contains these properties:

Some examples of built-in handlers include:

Refer to the Java documentation of these handlers for more information. Java documentation can be accessed from the EAServer contents screen where host_name is the name of the your EAServer host. localhost is the default.