Serialization of SOAP message in WL 7.1 (without toString)

Question

Hi all.
I'm using Weblogic 7.1 and am trying to serialize the SOAP message I get in my
request handler to raw XML. Unfortunately since WL 7.1 only seems to support an
old version of SAAJ, that for some bizarre reason doesn't use the DOM interfaces,
the only way I can think of to do this is to call toString() on the message. Of
course I'd rather not do this since this is making assumptions about the WL implementation
of SAAJ. Can anyone think of a better way of doing this?
Since all I'm after is the raw XML anyway, would it make sense to just pass this
in as a string in the RPC call (given that my messages are likely to be fairly
big -- around 500K of raw XML)? Obviously this is a total hack, and I probably
won't end up doing it, but does anyone know of any good technical reasons why
I shouldn't do this?
Thanks.
Neil.

Answer 1

Hi Neil
Manoj has an WLS 7.x example passing XML without data bindings [1] that
may assist your efforts. Also see the example using handlers to get the
SOAP request/response message.
Regards,
Bruce
[1]
http://manojc.com/?wls70/sample2
[2]
http://manojc.com/?wls70/sample4
Neil wrote:
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Hi all.
I'm using Weblogic 7.1 and am trying to serialize the SOAP message I get in my
request handler to raw XML. Unfortunately since WL 7.1 only seems to support an
old version of SAAJ, that for some bizarre reason doesn't use the DOM interfaces,
the only way I can think of to do this is to call toString() on the message. Of
course I'd rather not do this since this is making assumptions about the WL implementation
of SAAJ. Can anyone think of a better way of doing this?
Since all I'm after is the raw XML anyway, would it make sense to just pass this
in as a string in the RPC call (given that my messages are likely to be fairly
big -- around 500K of raw XML)? Obviously this is a total hack, and I probably
won't end up doing it, but does anyone know of any good technical reasons why
I shouldn't do this?
Thanks.
Neil.