Extract SOAP custom header information - web-services

Question

I want to read request header from SOAP incoming request in my Java code for some authorization purpose. I found few work-arounds like using SOAPHandlers and . Code as below :
`package com.cerillion.ccs.framework;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPException;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPHeader;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.MessageContext;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.soap.SOAPHandler;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.soap.SOAPMessageContext;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
public class ApiSoapHandler implements SOAPHandler<SOAPMessageContext> {
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ApiSoapHandler.class.getName());
#Override
public void close(MessageContext arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public boolean handleFault(SOAPMessageContext context) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext context) {
logger.debug("Inside ApiSoapHandler");
try {
SOAPMessage message = context.getMessage();
SOAPHeader header = message.getSOAPHeader();
message.saveChanges();
} catch (SOAPException e) {
logger.error("Error occurred while adding credentials to SOAP header.",
e);
}
return true;
}
#Override
public Set<QName> getHeaders() {
/* QName securityTokenHeader = new QName("urn:com.intertech.secty", "token");
//new QName(“urn:com.intertech.secty”,“username”);
HashSet<QName> headers = new HashSet<QName>();
headers.add(securityTokenHeader);
return headers;*/
return null;
} }`
I ma really curious about to have some other simple alternative rather than writing entire handler just for fetching custom header tag. Is this the only way to read SOAP request header ? Any leads are really appreciated