How Can I Get Notified When There are Changes to Contexts?

The information model within Axis2 contains a hierarchy of contexts. These contexts contain information about various levels within Axis2. Sometimes it is important to know when these contexts are created and removed. In this knowledge base item, we will discuss how we can get notified when new context is created and deleted. Date: Sun, 30th Nov, 2008 Level: Introductory Reads: 1197 Comments: 0 | Login or register to post comments Printer-friendly version Send to friend PDF version Post to twitter

Eran Chinthaka Software Engineer WSO2 Inc.

Configuration Context, the parent of all the contexts within Axis2, acts as the central point for the operation of the Axis2 engine. Whenever there is a creation or deletion of a message context, service context or service group context, the configuration context will be notified about this creation or deletion. We can register a listener with the configuration context, so that we can also be notified about these changes within Axis2. This is very handy if you are implementing a monitoring service or a management functionality on top of Axis2.

Let's see how we can do this.

Step 1 : Implement org.apache.axis2.context.ContextListener interface

public interface ContextListener {

    /**
     * A context has been added
     *
     * @param context
     */
    void contextCreated(AbstractContext context);

    /**
     * A context has been removed
     *
     * @param context
     */
    void contextRemoved(AbstractContext context);
}

First implement the org.apache.axis2.context.ContextListener interface. This interface contains two methods to be notified during a context creation and context deletion. You will get the created or removed context as an input to this method, so that you can extract the relevant information or perform some operation on top of them.

Step 2 : Register the implementation of ContextListener

Then you need to register your implementation of ContextListener interface with the configuration context, using the provided

public void addContextListener(ContextListener contextListener)

method.

ContextListener listener = new MyContextListener();

// get access to the configuration context. 
ConfigurationContext configContext = MessageContext.getCurrentMessageContext().getConfigurationContext();

configContext.addContextListener(listener);

Now whenever there is a creation or deletion of a context, the configuration context will notify your context listener.

Applies To

1. Apache Axis2

More Information

• More information about various contexts can be found here.