I need to update a javaEE application (still in java 1.7) that provides a SOAP web service. And I'd like to disable the TIMESTAMP_CACHE that wss4j (v2.0.2) uses to control reply attacks. It creates too many files and the OS reaches the maximum open files allowed, repeatedly. The files start to appear, one for each request that has been made and are named in the following way:
wss4j%002etimestamp%002ecache-e%0058ga%0058l%0058%004b%0057g%004ah%0050w==.data
The documentation states that the TIMESTAMP_CACHE can be changed (or so I understand):
ConfigurationConstants.ENABLE_TIMESTAMP_CACHE ("enableTimestampCache"): Whether to cache Timestamp Created Strings (these are only cached in conjunction with a message Signature). The default value is "true".
I've found many examples to change some of these ConfigurationConstants when a client application creates the Call object. See an example to change the PASSWORD_TYPE constant:
Service service = new Service();
Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
...
call.setProperty(UsernameToken.PASSWORD_TYPE, WSConstants.PASSWORD_TEXT);
call.setProperty(WSHandlerConstants.USER,"werner");
However, my application is not on the client side but on the server side and I haven't found so far the way to change the ENABLE_TIMESTAMP_CACHE constant. Any idea?