Doubt about SOAP HEADER

[Victor Maehira]

Hi javaranchers!
I am developing a web service client that needs to put some informations in SOAP HEADER message.

<soapenv:Header>
<rec:Autenticacao>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <rec:user>usuario</rec:user>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <rec:password>segredo</rec:password>
      </rec:Autenticacao>
   </soapenv:Header>

I have to put user and password fields in SOAP HEADER.

There is also a thread about it:
http://www.coderanch.com/t/225342/Web-Services/java/add-security-header-SOAP-request

Have you ever had to do deal with SOAP HEADER? Do you know any interesting tutorial?

Thanks in advance!

[Ulf Dittmer]

You don't need to deal with any SOAP headers directly if you use a standard like WS-Security (which does all that for you). Which SOAP stack are you using?

[Dan Drillich]

It's interesting to see a PHP implementation of the SOAP header ...

[Jimmy Clark]

Check out the methods of the SOAPEnvelope class.

[Victor Maehira]

Thanks a lot guys!!!
The problem is solved! For historical purposes, I am posting the URLs that I based on:

http://www.javadb.com/using-a-message-handler-to-a...header-in-a-web-service-client
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=38210

[Rahul Juneja]

Thanks for sharing this.

What about validating the same on the server side. How do you get the header out and validate the user name and password on the server side.

Any example of that ?

Thanks,
Rahul

[Vivek Kr Singh]

You can write a Web Service Handler and extract & process header information. This will be neater way of validating SOAP requests.

[Rahul Juneja]

Vivek Kr Singh wrote:You can write a Web Service Handler and extract & process header information. This will be neater way of validating SOAP requests.

Exactly, This is what i am thinking but do you have some links which shows some sample code snippet or something.
Any link is appreciated.

Thanks,
Rahul

[Vivek Kr Singh]

I have created handlers for WLS 10 using this link