Saving the Web Service Request as XML

[malmit]

I have been searching all over trying to figure out how to save a web service request as XML. I know that JBoss receives the XML SOAP request and translates this into the appropriate Java Object for the call, so I would assume that I can easily take that same Java Object and translate/serialize that back to XML. To me this sounds like a very simple task, but I don't seem to be able find out how to do this.

Example:
The method execute(MyRequest request) is called from a web service client. I want to be able to save request as XML.

Could someone please point me in the right direction or provide the details in a reply.

Thanks in advanced!

[romeufigueira]

If your're talking about saving a copy of the SOAP message on the server, then a Handler would do that for you.

You could program your HandleResponse part of the handler to save the incoming message into a xml file.

You will need to add the handler declaration to webservices.xml, setting your handler class (extending Handler or GenericHandler) in a separate java class (to be included in the WAR file as well).

.....
 </service-impl-bean>
 <handler>
 <handler-name>ServiceHandler</handler-name>
 <handler-class>pakage.name.ServiceHandler</handler-class>
 </handler>
 </port-component>
 </webservice-description>
</webservices>

[malmit]

Thanks this works! Does anyone know another way to serialize the Java Object to Xml within the web service implementation? I'm not sure if this is even possible.

[thomas.diesler]

Romeu is right, the jaxrpc handler willl do the job. With jbossws-2.0.x you will be able to use JAXB. Have a look at the JAXWS spec.