A simple SOAP Client class to send request body to a SOAP Server. Useful when you want to test a SOAP server and you don't want to generate all SOAP client class from the WSDL.

ASimpleSOAPClient.java

package com.kdstudio.snippets.soap.client;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory;
import javax.xml.soap.MimeHeaders;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPBody;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPConnection;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPConnectionFactory;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPEnvelope;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPException;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPPart;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * This is an example of a simple SOAP Client class to send request body to a
 * SOAP Server.
 * 
 * Useful when you want to test a SOAP server and you don't want to generate all
 * SOAP client class from the WSDL.
 * 
 * @author kdelfour
 */
public class ASimpleSOAPClient {

	// Default logger
	private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(ASimpleSOAPClient.class);

	// The SOAP server URI
	private String uriSOAPServer;
	// The SOAP connection
	private SOAPConnection soapConnection = null;

	// If you want to add namespace to the header, follow this constant
	private static final String PREFIX_NAMESPACE = "ns";
	private static final String NAMESPACE = "http://other.namespace.to.add.to.header";

	/**
	 * A constructor who create a SOAP connection
	 * 
	 * @param url
	 *            the SOAP server URI
	 */
	public ASimpleSOAPClient(final String url) {
		this.uriSOAPServer = url;

		try {
			createSOAPConnection();
		} catch (UnsupportedOperationException | SOAPException e) {
			LOG.error(e);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Send a SOAP request for a specific operation
	 * 
	 * @param xmlRequestBody
	 *            the body of the SOAP message
	 * @param operation
	 *            the operation from the SOAP server invoked
	 * @return a response from the server
	 * @throws SOAPException
	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException
	 * @throws IOException
	 * @throws SAXException
	 */
	public String sendMessageToSOAPServer(String xmlRequestBody,
			String operation) throws SOAPException, SAXException, IOException,
			ParserConfigurationException {

		// Send SOAP Message to SOAP Server
		final SOAPElement stringToSOAPElement = stringToSOAPElement(xmlRequestBody);
		final SOAPMessage soapResponse = soapConnection.call(
				createSOAPRequest(stringToSOAPElement, operation),
				uriSOAPServer);

		// Print SOAP Response
		LOG.info("Response SOAP Message : " + soapResponse.toString());
		return soapResponse.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Create a SOAP connection
	 * 
	 * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
	 * @throws SOAPException
	 */
	private void createSOAPConnection() throws UnsupportedOperationException,
			SOAPException {

		// Create SOAP Connection
		SOAPConnectionFactory soapConnectionFactory;
		soapConnectionFactory = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
		soapConnection = soapConnectionFactory.createConnection();
	}

	/**
	 * Create a SOAP request
	 * 
	 * @param body
	 *            the body of the SOAP message
	 * @param operation
	 *            the operation from the SOAP server invoked
	 * @return the SOAP message request completed
	 * @throws SOAPException
	 */
	private SOAPMessage createSOAPRequest(SOAPElement body, String operation)
			throws SOAPException {

		final MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
		final SOAPMessage soapMessage = messageFactory.createMessage();
		final SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart();

		// SOAP Envelope
		final SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
		envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration(PREFIX_NAMESPACE, NAMESPACE);

		// SOAP Body
		final SOAPBody soapBody = envelope.getBody();
		soapBody.addChildElement(body);

		// Mime Headers
		final MimeHeaders headers = soapMessage.getMimeHeaders();
		LOG.info("SOAPAction : " + uriSOAPServer + operation);
		headers.addHeader("SOAPAction", uriSOAPServer + operation);

		soapMessage.saveChanges();

		/* Print the request message */
		LOG.info("Request SOAP Message :" + soapMessage.toString());
		return soapMessage;
	}

	/**
	 * Transform a String to a SOAP element
	 * 
	 * @param xmlRequestBody
	 *            the string body representation
	 * @return a SOAP element
	 * @throws SOAPException
	 * @throws SAXException
	 * @throws IOException
	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException
	 */
	private SOAPElement stringToSOAPElement(String xmlRequestBody)
			throws SOAPException, SAXException, IOException,
			ParserConfigurationException {

		// Load the XML text into a DOM Document
		final DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
				.newInstance();
		builderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
		final InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(
				xmlRequestBody.getBytes());
		final Document doc = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(stream);

		// Use SAAJ to convert Document to SOAPElement
		// Create SoapMessage
		final MessageFactory msgFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
		final SOAPMessage message = msgFactory.createMessage();
		final SOAPBody soapBody = message.getSOAPBody();

		// This returns the SOAPBodyElement that contains ONLY the Payload
		return soapBody.addDocument(doc);
	}
}

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>com.dkstudio</groupId>
	<artifactId>snippets</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>Simple SOAP Client</name>
	<description>A simple SOAP Client class to send request body to a SOAP Server. 
	Useful when you want to test a SOAP server and you don't want to generate all SOAP client class from the WSDL.</description>

	<developers>
		<developer>
			<id>delfour.k</id>
			<name>Kevin DELFOUR</name>
			<email>[email protected]</email>
			<organization>DK</organization>
			<organizationUrl>http://kevin.delfour.eu</organizationUrl>
		</developer>
	</developers>

	<organization>
		<name>DK</name>
		<url>http://kevin.delfour.eu</url>
	</organization>

	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
		<project.build.sourceVersion>1.7</project.build.sourceVersion>
	</properties>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
			<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
			<version>1.2.17</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

</project>