Loggin all incoming soap messages

[kristof_taveirne]

Hi,
Is there a way to log ALL incoming soap messages using Log4J on JBoss?
Anybody done this before?

I would like to just see the XML appear in a log file everytime somebody submits a request to the web service. This is for debugging reasons only.

Or am I forced to use ethereal for this kind of "spying"?

Thanks alot

Kristof.

[hbraun]

I think you got three options:

1.) use some TCP monitor
2.) provide a jaxrpc handler
3.) set the log level to DEBUG for org.jboss.ws.soap

The first option is always handy, the second one probably the most appropriate whereas the last option is the easiest.

[anders.hedstrom]

If your using the jboss-ws4ee soap stack you would set the log level to debug for org.jboss.axis

What I do is that I create a new appender and a new category in log4j.xml. The following example will log all incomming soap requests and the following response sent back the caller.

<appender name="SOAP-FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.DailyRollingFileAppender">
 <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
 <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log/soap.log"/>
 <param name="Append" value="false"/>
 <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd"/>
 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%t] %m%n"/>
 </layout>
</appender>

...

<category name="org.jboss.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet" additivity="false">
 <priority value="DEBUG"/>
 <appender-ref ref="SOAP-FILE"/>
</category>