Old school Axis 1.0 way of consuming Web Service :(

Ok. Although nowdays we have a lot of advanced web service libraries such as CFX and etc, we still have to admit that sometimes we do bump into situation that we have no choice but to use the grandpa way of consuming web service! (well at least we are lucky not to use the great-grandpa way. LOL)

Yeah somehow I have to use the Axis 1.x library to generate Web Service Java Clients or Stub for me. Well that is not a big problem but but but in my case the Web Service Provider needs SOAP Header which contains all the username token information.

That's a real headache ya!

Well, the solution is quite easy anyway. It looks like below:

import org.apache.axis.client.Stub;
import org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement;

SOAPHeaderElement security = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd","Security")

SOAPHeaderElement usernameToken = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd","UsernameToken");

SOAPHeaderElement user = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd","Username", "xxx"); 

SOAPHeaderElement password = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd","Password", "xxxyyy");
usernameToken.addChild(user);
usernameToken.addChild(password);
security.addChild(usernameToken);
            
Execute_ptt exec = ws.getexecute_pt(new URL("http://localhost:8001/soa-infra/services/SampleWebServiceProvider"));
((Stub)exec).setHeader(security);

Next, just make your web service call using the stub.