Spring Integration WS Gateway with Empty Response

Question

I am using the "ws:outbound-gateway" with the following attributes,

ignore-empty-responses="false" reply-channel="processReplyChannel"

i also tried the

ignore-empty-responses="FALSE" reply-channel="processReplyChannel"

in fact the WS Reply is empty as follows,

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body />
</soap:Envelope>

my problem is that channel has a ServiceActivator that will do something in case of a non soap-fault reply message. But it seems that maybe something is missing because the ws processing are never reaching the "processReplyChannel", does anyone have a hint on how to process a sucessfull WS call without a response body?

Updating with a sample config.

<int:chain input-channel="inputChainChannel"   id="chainId">
        <int:transformer id="firsttransformer"
            ref="firsttransformer" ></int:transformer>
        <int:transformer ref="beanTramsformer" method="someMethod"></int:transformer>
        <int:transformer id="sencondMarshallingTransfomer" ref="sencondMarshallingTransfomer"></int:transformer>
        <int:object-to-string-transformer></int:object-to-string-transformer>
        <ws:header-enricher>
            <ws:soap-action value="theSoapAction" />
        </ws:header-enricher>
        <ws:outbound-gateway 
            uri="${wsEndpoint}"
            interceptor="anInterceptor" ignore-empty-responses="false" reply-channel="processReplyChannel">
            <ws:request-handler-advice-chain>
                    <ref bean="retryAdvice" />
            </ws:request-handler-advice-chain>  
        </ws:outbound-gateway>  
    </int:chain>

Regards,

Answer 1

This looks like a bug; I opened a JIRA issue which you can watch.