A generic SOAP service transformer

[kaspersorensen]

Some ideas to make a generic SOAP service transformer possible:

• Descriptor of the transformer should be explicitly provided in conf.xml. This will allow multiple instances in the descriptor catalog, of the same generic SOAP transformer class.
• User should specify the following in conf.xml:
  • Endpoint URL
  • Request template with variable parts like this: ${foo}
  • Response configuration could be done with XPath statements or so. Or else the return type would be a single string with the complete SOAP response.
• Pooling and Error Handling of requests should also be configurable somehow.

Demo/test with a public weather service

Also implement for REST?

[kaspersorensen]

A bit of pseudo code for making a dynamic SOAP client:

QName serviceName = new QName(...);
Service service = Service.create(serviceName);
QName portName = new QName(...);
String endpointAddress = "...";
service.addPort(portName, SOAPBinding.SOAP11HTTP_BINDING, endpointAddress);
Dispatch<SOAPMessage> dispatch = service.createDispatch(portName, SOAPMessage.class, Service.Mode.MESSAGE);
SOAPMessage request = ...;
SOAPMessage response = dispatch.invoke(request);