[d_pavel]

I know we can use the Web Services Explorer to access incoming and outgoing SOAP messages but only when having methods for which we can provide basic data type’s. But this is not useful in my case because we feed in complex objects as params; I can use this tool with simple parameter types (string, int, etc) but for
providing complex object types at run time I can not so I have to nill it out…; so far I don’t have a way to intercept the outgoing SOAP when providing complex object types as parameters in the method.

I am using JBoss. Can I enable SOAP tracing in the application server logs? One can do that if using JBossWS but if using XFire I don’t know. Anyway I have a wird error from the log4j upon startup of the JBoss AS:

20:44:10,039 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR A “org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler” object is not assignable to a “org.apache.log4j.spi.ErrorHandler” variable.
20:44:10,039 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR The class “org.apache.log4j.spi.ErrorHandler” was loaded by
20:44:10,040 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR [WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
repositories:
/WEB-INF/classes/
———-> Parent Classloader:
java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader@406c7e
] whereas object of type
20:44:10,040 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR “org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler” was loaded by [org.jboss.system.server.NoAnnotationURLClassLoader@b166b5].
20:44:10,084 ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR Could not create an Appender. Reported error follows.
20:44:10,084 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.logging.appender.DailyRollingFileAppender
20:44:10,086 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseAppender(DOMConfigurator.java:165)

Everything is still working but I can not fix this log4j error. JBoss’es log4j is using a DailyRollingFileAppender as it is configured. I don’t know what component is trying to load a org.apache.log4j.spi.ErrorHandler . Can you help me with this please ?

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to OT > Soft Dev

This is a JBoss/Logging specific question, and unfortunately I just don’t know the answer.

[d_pavel]

Hi,

Sorry but my post was not only a JBoss/logging question, it’s regarding also XFire SOAP traffic tracing.

OK let’s put it this way: how can one trace the SOAP messages when using XFire to develop web services ???

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance.

[tomeksz]

You can use TCPMON ( the one build in MyEclipse or from https://tcpmon.dev.java.net/ ).
You can also tell XFire to log all traffic to file, see http://xfire.codehaus.org/Logging

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