Sending calls from SOAP files

I have a web service running on a service.

I also have 10 XML files that have SOAP messages in them.

I want to use some API that can read a SOAP XML file, build and invoke a request and print the response.

To build such a simple utility which API do I use?

It sounds like you could use the standard Java library methods for creating HTTP requests.

Study the java.net package URLConnection and HttpURLConnection classes.

Bill

As Billl said, you can use HttpClient provided by apache. It's more comprehensive and easy to use than java.net package. You can set the the soap envelope as request body and different http header. After executing http method you will get SOAP response envelope as http response.

Hi!
If you have one of the following requirements:

Perform validation or additional processing of SOAP messages prior to sending requests.

Use the Dispatch mechanism to send request and receive response.

Use SAAJ to send request and receive response.

Then you can use SAAJ to read SOAP messages from the file(s):

public SOAPMessage createSOAPMessageFromFile(final String inFilePath) throws SOAPException, 
        IOException 
    {
        MessageFactory theMsgFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance(SOAPConstants.SOAP_1_1_PROTOCOL);

/* 
         * Prepare stream reading from file containing SOAP message 
         * and an object containing the MIME headers. It is also 
         * possible to supply a null MimeHeaders object, in which case 
         * an empty one will be created when the SOAP message is 
         * created. In this example we do not include any MIME 
         * headers. 
         * 
         * Note that if the format of the SOAP message in the file is 
         * illegal, there will not be any errors until we try to get 
         * some part of the SOAP message, for instance the body.
         */ 
        FileInputStream theFIS = new FileInputStream(inFilePath); 
        MimeHeaders theMimeHdrs = new MimeHeaders(); 
        SOAPMessage theMsg = theMsgFactory.createMessage(theMimeHdrs, theFIS); 
        theFIS.close();

return theMsg; 
    }

Best wishes!

Thanks everyone.

Yes. I was looking for something more than a HTTP API, and wanted to be within the SOAP framework.

Will use SAAJ.

SAAJ downloaded independently versus the package that comes with JDK 1.6 - is there any difference?

I think they're the same. SAAJ hasn't changed in some time.