client response and parsing behaviour

[Pratap koritala]

I am having couple of questions

1) In web service client( Preferably Axis), After it start receiving the response for return type.
What is the default behavior,
Does it buffer till the response stream ends and treats it as string and then parses it to java types, or
It will treat it as stream and uses a SAX parses and does the parse.

2) In the above case, can we able to override the behavior in case of Axis?

3) In Axis web service client , After the response but before parsing and generating the java return types.
I want to have the control back to me, so that I can enclose the response as stream and pass it to parser. Is it possible ?

Any help would be appreciated.