Get XML before sending to End Point

Question

Hi All,
Can anyone give me an idea of how to get the actual XML in requestEnv. I want to save the XML before I send it to the web service end point so I can know exactly what I have sent for debugging reasons.
I have done a good bit of googling on this and have found that it seems to point to either Serialization or Marshalling. The problem I can see with serialization, although I admit I dont know much about it, is this not going to build XML based on the elements in Envelope, instead of being the exact XML that I am sending? .. although I see that it should technically always be the same.
I have tried all the obvious, envelope.toString() etc etc.
Thanks!,
Glenn
URL endpointURL = new URL(_endpoint);
Envelope requestEnv = new Envelope();
Body requestBody = new Body();
Vector requestBodyEntries = new Vector();
String wrappingName = "coreBio";
String targetNamespace = "http://identifyrequest.com";
Vector requestData = new Vector();
requestData.add(new Object[] {"MH", MH});
requestData.add(new Object[] {"MC", MC});
requestBodyEntries.addElement(toElement(wrappingName, targetNamespace, requestData));
requestBody.setBodyEntries(requestBodyEntries);
requestEnv.setBody(requestBody);
Message msg = new Message();
msg.setSOAPTransport(m_httpConnection);
msg.send(endpointURL, "", requestEnv);
Envelope responseEnv = msg.receiveEnvelope();
Body responseBody = responseEnv.getBody();
Vector responseData = responseBody.getBodyEntries();

Answer 1

One way (but probably not the only one) would be to extend the class & add a toString() method that outputs the XML. That way you can just write the object to a log, console, etc. with minimum fuss.