How to add exactly 2 NON XML caracters at the end of a SOAP body

Question

Hello all I am trying to add two (and only two) extra non xml caracters "AA" at the END of a SOAP body using the JAXWS handlers as so:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 131
Content-Length: 131
Server: Jetty(7.x.y-SNAPSHOT)
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
AA
The problem is that if you try to add them to the SOAP body (see code below) you get a XML Unmarshalling exception. If I add "AA" as a soap attachment I get MORE than 2 caracters after the SOAP body (which I don't want)
Here is the my SOAPHandler code :
@Override
public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext mc) {
if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(mc.get(MessageContext.MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY))) {
try {
SOAPMessage message = context.getMessage()
String stringSoapMessage= getMsgAsString(message);
stringSoapMessage += "ss";
message.getSOAPPart().setContent((Source) new StreamSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(msg.getBytes())));
message.saveChanges();
context.setMessage(message);
} catch (Exception e1) {
return true;
public String getMsgAsString(SOAPMessage message) throws SOAPException {
String msg = null;
try {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
message.writeTo(baos);
msg = baos.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return msg;
so my question is this: is there any way to add exactly 2 non xml caracters at the end of the soap body using jaxws handlers ? I have spent several weeks on this so it is not an easy question...
Thanks,
Fred.

Answer 1

Yes I have done it using CFX interceptors. But the runtime dependencies needed were too big for this particular use. I mean having to use these:
apache/cxf/cxf-bundle/2.6.0/cxf-bundle-2.6.0.jar
org/apache/neethi/neethi/3.0.2/neethi-3.0.2.jar                    
wsdl4j/wsdl4j/1.6.2/wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar
/org/codehaus/woodstox/wstx-asl/3.2.4/wstx-asl-3.2.4.jar
org/apache/ws/xmlschema/xmlschema-core/2.0.2/xmlschema-core-2.0.2.jar
org/mortbay/jetty/jetty-util/6.0.2/jetty-util-6.0.2.jar
org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-util/7.5.4.v20111024/jetty-util-7.5.4.v20111024.jar
org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-servlet_2.5_spec/1.1.2/geronimo-servlet_2.5_spec-1.1.2.jar
org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec/1.7.1/geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec-1.7.1.jar
org/apache/geronimo/specs/geronimo-servlet_3.0_spec/1.0/geronimo-servlet_3.0_spec-1.0.jar
org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-http/7.5.4.v20111024/jetty-http-7.5.4.v20111024.jar
org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-server/7.5.4.v20111024/jetty-server-7.5.4.v20111024.jar
org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-io/7.5.4.v20111024/jetty-io-7.5.4.v20111024.jar
org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-continuation/7.5.4.v20111024/jetty-continuation-7.5.4.v20111024.jar
to add two caracters at the end of a soap message seems like over kill. If this is the only way to do this then i'll do it this way but it just seems like the implementation of the JAXWS API in JDK 6 seems inches away from being able to do this no ?
Thanks for the replies,
Fred