I tried to use resource injection in WS Handler as described in JAX-WS spec which is a MUST feature.

I tested it in both Sun impl and Jbosss JAX-WS 2.0.x with Jboss 4.2.2. It is working well in Sun impl but not working in JBoss WS.

here is the simple test. I am using web war as deployement, inside web.xml, I have the following:

<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>customFormat</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<env-entry-value>Path1: $PATH_INFO, Outbound: $MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY - $NODE</env-entry-value>
<injection-target>
<injection-target-class>testjaxws.handler.DefaultCustomLoggingWrapperHandler</injection-target-class>
<injection-target-name>customFormat</injection-target-name>
</injection-target>
</env-entry>

inside DefaultCustomLoggingWrapperHandler class, I have:

@Resource
private String customFormat = null;

defined.

It is never gets injected with this value no matter what I tried.