Question

I have implemented a WS client in Java from an existing WSDL I got.
I can connect, invoke WS methods and everything works great.
But….
I am supposed to use a Proxy for communication!!!

Already tried many ways to do that, but nothing works:

Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress("host",Integer.parseInt("8008")));
URL url = new URL(theUrl);  

HttpURLConnection uc = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(proxy);
uc.connect();

Or i tried

System.setPropertry(String, String)

So can set host and proxy and proxySet= true.

But according to colleagues this is not what I should do as it sets global properties and it will not work with many individual runs within out System.

Any ideas how I am supposed to do this?
Any help appreciated,
thanks

Answer 1

Eventually I used a class to extend java.net.ProxySelector let’s call it MyProxySelector.java
And in the implemented select() method, I check the URI, if it is a URI I which to connect through a proxy, that is the Web service’s URI then I create a proxy:

SocketAddress addr = new InetSocketAddress(theHost, thePort);
proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, addr);

add it to my proxy list:

List<Proxy> proxyList = new ArrayList<Proxy>();
proxyList.add(proxy);

and return the proxy list.