Producing SOAP webservices with spring-ws with Soap v1.2 instead of the default v1.1

Question

I am currently working on Spring soap server project. I started off with the Getting Started guide from Spring here http://spring.io/guides/gs/producing-web-service/ to build a basic SOAP service.

The default SOAP protocol is SOAP v1.1. Is there a way I could set the protocol to v1.2, possibly via annotations?

I tried @BindingType(javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPBinding.SOAP12HTTP_BINDING) annotation on the @Endpoint class but it doesnt seem to work.

I also tried @Endpoint(value = SOAPBinding.SOAP12HTTP_BINDING) to set it, but this doesnt work either as seen in the logs on startup

INFO --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory  :
 Creating SAAJ 1.3 MessageFactory with SOAP 1.1 Protocol

Ofcourse, if I post a SOAP request to the server, I get the following error

2015-01-19 15:50:17.610 ERROR 20172 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] c.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap : SAAJ0533: Cannot create message: incorrect content-type for SOAP version. Got application/soap+xml;
 charset=utf-8, but expected text/xml
2015-01-19 15:50:17.611 ERROR 20172 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] c.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap   :
 SAAJ0535: Unable to internalize message
2015-01-19 15:50:17.617 ERROR 20172 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] a.c.c.C.[.[.[.[messageDispatcherServlet] :
 Servlet.service() for servlet [messageDispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception [R
equest processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.ws.soap.SoapMessageCreationException: Could not create message from InputStream: Unable to internalize message; nested exception is com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Unable to internalize message] with root cause

com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPVersionMismatchException: Cannot create message: incorrect content-type for SOAP version. Got: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 Expected: text/xml
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.init(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.Message1_1Impl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.SOAPMessageFactory1_1Impl.createMessage(Unknown Source)

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You are mixing Spring-WS with annotations from JAX-WS (package javax.xml.ws). That won't work. To configure Spring-WS to use SOAP 1.2, add the following bean definition:

@Bean
public SaajSoapMessageFactory messageFactory() {
    SaajSoapMessageFactory messageFactory = new SaajSoapMessageFactory();
    messageFactory.setSoapVersion(SoapVersion.SOAP_12);
    return messageFactory;
}

Answer 2

If the messageFactory Bean is not in the singleton scope, then the afterPropertiesSet() method in the SaajSoapMessageFactory is not called on bean instantation.

The afterPropertiesSet() method sets up an internal message factory. So if your messageFactory bean has its own scope you need to set up the internal message factory like this:

@Bean
@Scope("custom-scope")
public SaajSoapMessageFactory messageFactory() {
    SaajSoapMessageFactory messageFactory = new SaajSoapMessageFactory();
    messageFactory.messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance(SOAPConstants.SOAP_1_2_PROTOCOL);
    return messageFactory;
}