Neil McFarlane [http://community.jboss.org/people/Oberiko] replied to the discussion "how to set headers in JAX-WS" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/533086#533086 -------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry to drag up an old message like this, but I don't see a newer one on the same topic. Are the three solutions presented still the only way of handling  authenication via headers within the operation.  For example, a WSDL I'm trying to build a client for has the following: {code:xml}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tm=" http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/ http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/" xmlns:soapenc=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:mime=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:tns=" http://ws.myWebService.net http://ws.myWebService.net" xmlns:s=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" xmlns:http=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" targetNamespace=" http://ws.myWebService.net http://ws.myWebService.net" xmlns:wsdl=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">   <wsdl:types>     <s:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace=" http://ws.myWebService.net http://ws.myWebService.net">       <s:element name="myOperation">         <s:complexType>           <s:sequence>             <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="isSecureMode" type="s:boolean" />           </s:sequence>         </s:complexType>       </s:element>       <s:element name="myOperationResponse">         <s:complexType>           <s:sequence>             <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="myOperationResult" type="s:string" />           </s:sequence>         </s:complexType>       </s:element>       <s:element name="AuthenticationXML" type="tns:AuthenticationXML" />       <s:complexType name="AuthenticationXML">         <s:sequence>           <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="User" type="s:string" />           <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="Password" type="s:string" />         </s:sequence>         <s:anyAttribute />       </s:complexType>     </s:schema>   </wsdl:types>   <wsdl:message name="myOperationSoapIn">     <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:myOperation" />   </wsdl:message>   <wsdl:message name="myOperationSoapOut">     <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:myOperationResponse" />   </wsdl:message>   <wsdl:message name="myOperationAuthenticationXML">     <wsdl:part name="AuthenticationXML" element="tns:AuthenticationXML" />   </wsdl:message>   <wsdl:message name="SendDataAuthenticationXML">     <wsdl:part name="AuthenticationXML" element="tns:AuthenticationXML" />   </wsdl:message> <wsdl:portType name="myPort">   <wsdl:operation name="myOperation">    <wsdl:input message="tns:myOperationSoapIn" />    <wsdl:output message="tns:myOperationSoapOut" />   </wsdl:operation>   </wsdl:portType>   <wsdl:binding name="myPort12" type="tns:myPort">     <soap12:binding transport=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />     <wsdl:operation name="myOperation">       <soap12:operation soapAction="myWebService:myOperation" style="document" />       <wsdl:input>         <soap12:body use="literal" />         <soap12:header message="tns:myOperationAuthenticationXML" part="AuthenticationXML" use="literal" />       </wsdl:input>       <wsdl:output>         <soap12:body use="literal" />       </wsdl:output>     </wsdl:operation>   </wsdl:binding>   <wsdl:service name="myWebServiceWS">     <wsdl:port name="myPort11" binding="tns:myPort11">       <soap:address location=" https://devws.myWebService.myDomain.net/myWebServicews/myWebServicews.asmx https://devws.myWebService.myDomain.net/myWebServicews/myWebServicews.asm... />     </wsdl:port>     <wsdl:port name="myPort12" binding="tns:myPort12">       <soap12:address location=" https://devws.myWebService.myDomain.net/myWebServicews/myWebServicews.asmx https://devws.myWebService.myDomain.net/myWebServicews/myWebServicews.asm... />     </wsdl:port>   </wsdl:service> </wsdl:definitions>{code} With WsConsume, I don't get the option to add Authentication elements to my methods and setting the binding properties does nothing. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/533086#533086] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]