Getting SOAP Header from Bytes

Question

Hi,
I am fairly new to SAAJ. I have a MDB which is dequeing JMS BytesMessage. Below is the code piece:
    if (inMessage instanceof BytesMessage) {
                // retrieve the object
                msg = (BytesMessage)inMessage;
                byte load = msg.readByte();  
      ....             Now I want to be able to cast this byte to SOAP message and retrive the SOAP header say using SAAJ. Fyi, here is the beginning of my message
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
     <soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing">
          <wsa:MessageID>GES-6b05eb12e07804b6e54089beb6122767874ae</wsa:MessageID>
Could you please show me how to tackle this?
Thanks in advance,
Mustafa

Answer 1

I have had no problem calling an external web service from a JCD in 5.1.2 I have been able to access and set the fields of the header portion of this external web service as long as the WSDL for the web service has used an explicit header description. If the WSDL contains and implicit header (the header is described as a separate message) I have not been successful getting visibility to the header. See http://www.softwaresummit.com/2005/speakers/TostPracticalLessonsLearnedInWebServicesDesign.pdf pages 30 - 32 it has a nice summary about the difference for header descriptions. If CAPS is cooperating with you, you should be able to import the WSDL for the external web service, create a JCD that is going to call the web service, include the OTD for the web service in your JCD and then just follow the instructions in the eGate users guide to fire off the invoke of the web service.