Producing SOAP webservices with spring-ws with Soap v1.2 instead of the default v1.1

Question

I am currently working on Spring soap server project. I started off with the Getting Started guide from Spring here http://spring.io/guides/gs/producing-web-service/ to build a basic SOAP service.

The default SOAP protocol is SOAP v1.1. Is there a way I could set the protocol to v1.2, possibly via annotations?

I tried @BindingType(javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPBinding.SOAP12HTTP_BINDING) annotation on the @Endpoint class but it doesnt seem to work.

I also tried @Endpoint(value = SOAPBinding.SOAP12HTTP_BINDING) to set it, but this doesnt work either as seen in the logs on startup

INFO --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory  :
 Creating SAAJ 1.3 MessageFactory with SOAP 1.1 Protocol

Ofcourse, if I post a SOAP request to the server, I get the following error

2015-01-19 15:50:17.610 ERROR 20172 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] c.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap : SAAJ0533: Cannot create message: incorrect content-type for SOAP version. Got application/soap+xml;
 charset=utf-8, but expected text/xml
2015-01-19 15:50:17.611 ERROR 20172 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] c.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap   :
 SAAJ0535: Unable to internalize message
2015-01-19 15:50:17.617 ERROR 20172 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] a.c.c.C.[.[.[.[messageDispatcherServlet] :
 Servlet.service() for servlet [messageDispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception [R
equest processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.ws.soap.SoapMessageCreationException: Could not create message from InputStream: Unable to internalize message; nested exception is com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Unable to internalize message] with root cause

com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPVersionMismatchException: Cannot create message: incorrect content-type for SOAP version. Got: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 Expected: text/xml
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.init(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.Message1_1Impl.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.SOAPMessageFactory1_1Impl.createMessage(Unknown Source)

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You are mixing Spring-WS with annotations from JAX-WS (package javax.xml.ws). That won't work. To configure Spring-WS to use SOAP 1.2, add the following bean definition:

@Bean
public SaajSoapMessageFactory messageFactory() {
    SaajSoapMessageFactory messageFactory = new SaajSoapMessageFactory();
    messageFactory.setSoapVersion(SoapVersion.SOAP_12);
    return messageFactory;
}