How to delete apache axis tmp files without restarting

Question

We're using apache axis to talk to a web service. It works fine, but over the course of a day we're generating 1GB of temp files. These files are deleted if we restart the service, but needing to restart the service every day so we don't run out of disk space seems a bit silly.

Is there an easy fix for this?

Answer 1

We found a programmatic way to avoid generation of those files - which sounds like a better way to do the housekeeping. I posted that in the comments of AXIS2-3919 issue, but will copy it here just in case:

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Actually, the files are deployed to the temp folder each time AXIS configuration context is created. Also, it appears that the generated Stub can accept existing configuration object via the constructor. So, the following Spring configuration helped us to solve the issue (irrelevant bean and class names dropped):

<bean id="....Stub" factory-bean="...." factory-method="...." scope="request">
    <!-- this next element effects the proxying of the surrounding bean, 
        needed because .... will try to set the stub out of request scope -->
    <aop:scoped-proxy/>
    <constructor-arg index="0" >
        <!-- The WS stub is created here, and passed to the factory-method of ... as a parameter -->
        <bean class="com......ws.....Stub" scope="prototype">
            <constructor-arg ref="axisConfigContext" />
        </bean>
    </constructor-arg>
</bean>

<!-- Exists to avoid deployment of axis jar into temp dir for each request. See     AXIS2-3919 for more details. -->
<bean id="axisConfigContext" 
        class="org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContextFactory" 
        factory-method="createConfigurationContextFromFileSystem">
    <constructor-arg index="0"><null /></constructor-arg>
    <constructor-arg index="1"><null /></constructor-arg>
</bean>