How to log outgoing/incoming SOAP Requests in Websphere? (61 of 285 technotes for 2015)

Trace for SOAP WS messages can be enabled by following these steps on Websphere 7 administration console:

• Go to administration console
• Go to: Servers -> WebSphere application servers -> server > Change Log Detail Levels
• In the package tree find the package com.ibm.ws.websvcs.trace, click on package name and choose ‘All Mesasges and Traces’, as result you should have log details set as below:

*=info: com.ibm.ws.websvcs.trace.*=all

• Click on 'OK’ and then Save the changes.

SOAP request/responses can now be found in trace.log on your appl. server.

References: http://bit.ly/1J4dSy5

Pretty printing SOAP messages. (60 of 285 technotes for 2015)

Handy Java code to print SOAPMessages

References: - http://bit.ly/1dkVWoW

public static String getSOAPMessageAsString(SOAPMessage soapMessage) {
      try {

         TransformerFactory tff = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
         Transformer tf = tff.newTransformer();

         // Set formatting
        
         tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
         tf.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount",
               "2");
         
         Source sc = soapMessage.getSOAPPart().getContent();

         ByteArrayOutputStream streamOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         StreamResult result = new StreamResult(streamOut);
         tf.transform(sc, result);

         String strMessage = streamOut.toString();
         return strMessage;
      } catch (Exception e) {
         System.out.println("Exception in getSOAPMessageAsString "
               + e.getMessage());
         return null;
      }

   }