Axis 1.4 and Java 1.6 - SOAPElement problem

[Arijit Mukherjee]

Hi All

So long I was using Axis 1.2.1 and Java 1.5, and was able to
successfully add my custom XML document within a SOAPMessage. I create
the XML document using castor-generated java bindings and combining them
into a DOM, and then using the following routine to get a SOAPElement
from the DOM:

public static SOAPElement
convertDOMToSOAPElement(javax.xml.soap.SOAPEnvelope env, Node DOMNode)
            throws SOAPException {

        //Test that DOMNode is of type org.w3c.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE.
        if ((DOMNode.getNodeType()) != Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
            throw new SOAPException("DOMNode must of type
ELEMENT_NODE");

        SOAPFactory elementFactory = SOAPFactory.newInstance();
        SOAPElement se =
elementFactory.createElement(DOMNode.getLocalName());
        mLog.debug("element class: " + se.getClass().getName());

        if (DOMNode.hasAttributes()) {
            NamedNodeMap DOMAttributes = DOMNode.getAttributes();
            int noOfAttributes = DOMAttributes.getLength();
            for (int i = 0; i < noOfAttributes; i++) {
                org.w3c.dom.Node attr = DOMAttributes.item(i);
                se.addAttribute(env.createName(attr.getLocalName(),
attr.getPrefix(),
                                attr.getNamespaceURI()),
attr.getNodeValue());
            }
        }


        if (DOMNode.hasChildNodes()) {
            NodeList children = DOMNode.getChildNodes();
            for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
                Node child = children.item(i);
                switch (child.getNodeType()) {
                    case org.w3c.dom.Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE:
                        break;
                    case org.w3c.dom.Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE:
                        break;
                    case org.w3c.dom.Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
                    case org.w3c.dom.Node.COMMENT_NODE:
                    case org.w3c.dom.Node.TEXT_NODE: {
                        se.addTextNode(child.getNodeValue());
                        break;
                    }
                    default:
                        se.addChildElement(convertDOMToSOAPElement(env,
child));
                }
            }//end of for
        }//end of if

        return se;
    }

Once the SOAPElement is returned, I used to add it as a child element to
my main SOAPBodyElement:

        SOAPEnvelope envelope = new SOAPEnvelope();
            //Create the root element
            Document outputDocument = XMLUtils.newDocument(new
ByteArrayInputStream(impl.tm.getBytes()));
            System.out.println("Document Element: " +
outputDocument.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
            SOAPBody bdy = (SOAPBody) envelope.getBody();
            SOAPBodyElement csReq = (SOAPBodyElement)
bdy.addBodyElement(envelope.createName(DynasoarConstants.DYNASOAR_SERVIC
E_REQUEST));
            SOAPElement elem1 = convertDOMToSOAPElement(envelope,
outputDocument.getDocumentElement());           
            csReq.addChildElement(elem1);

Recently I upgraded to Axis 1.4 and Java 1.6, and started getting a
class cas exception about not being able to cast a
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.impl.ElementImpl object to
org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement at the
csReq.addChildElement(elem1) statement. But ideally the object returned
from the routing should be javax.xml.SOAPElement. I reverted back to
Java 1.5, and the same code is back working.

Are there any known issues with Axis 1.4 and Java 1.6?

Thanx in advance

Regards
Arijit

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