How to make a SOAP message?

Question

Hi!
I'm trying to send an object to a JMS queue using SOAP and Spring Integration. I already made the object into XML like so:
<app:MyClass>
  <app:myValue>A value</app:myValue>
</app:MyClass>But I can't figure out how to wrap this into a SOAP message in a satisfying way. I tried using the SOAPMessage class, but since Spring doesn't like sending the message object as-is, I first have to convert it to a String:
//Create message
MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
soapMessage = messageFactory.createMessage();
//Get parts
SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart();
SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();
//Insert content
body.addTextNode(myClassXMLString);
soapMessage.saveChanges();
//Convert message to String
ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
soapMessage.writeTo(stream);
String string = new String(stream.toByteArray());That produces an output that look something like this:
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><env:Header/><env:Body>&#38lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&#38gt;&#38#13;
&#38lt;app:MyClass xmlns:app="http://namespace.myurl.com" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&#38gt;&#38#13;
   &#38lt;app:myValue&#38gt;A value&#38lt;/app:myValue&#38gt;&#38#13;
&#38lt;/app:MyClass&#38gt;&#13;
</env:Body></env:Envelope>So I have to do some string editing to make it look proper and fix the tags. But at that point I might as well just add the Envelope and other SOAP tags manually with a StringBuilder.
Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

I don't know much about SOAP, but I would suggest that if you don't want that data to be handled as text, then you shouldn't be using the addTextNode() method. And working backwards, you shouldn't be converting your data to XML text like that either. Probably you should be doing something else to add the object directly into the SOAP document, but as I say I don't know much about SOAP so I can't say what.
But I would expect any decent SOAP tutorial to have an example of how to put an object into a SOAP document.