What's the absolute simplest way for a SOAP client written with Axis
to capture the XML sent and received to an SSL service and display it
for debugging purposes? I'm looking for something I can use for user
support, so it needs to be really easy.

Here are the ways I know to capture the XML and the drawbacks:

tcpmon (or other packet sniffing approaches like SOAPScope):
  Doesn't work for SSL. (SOAPScope has this ability but it's not
  readily available.)

SOAP Monitor:
  Requires special access to the server

logging configuration:
  Requires user understands how to configure log4j / java.util.logging /
  whatever on the client. This seems fairly complicated.

What would be ideal for me is a single static method call, something
like "org.apache.axis.Foo.dumpXmlToStderr(true);".


More options here:
  http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?AxisProjectPages/MonitorSOAPTraffic

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