Weblogic.wsee.jaxrpc.soapfault.WLSOAPFaultException: Old Format Work Area Header Is Disabled Exception Post WebLogic Upgrade

Question

After the upgrade of weblogic to newer version I started facing an error with different application conectivity.

RequestDumpingFilter Response; Content=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><StatusBadGateway xmlns="http://types.xxx"><BackendSystem>Infomatica</BackendSystem><BackendServiceCall>getUsage</BackendServiceCall><ErrorMessage>RuntimeException when calling getUsage. javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Old format work area header is disabled.</ErrorMessage></StatusBadGateway>

Does anyone knows the solution? How to fix this?

Answer 1

Issue is caused due to old headers in use even after upgrade, no common soap header format is in use. See below.

APPLIES TO:
Oracle WebLogic Server - Version 12.2.1.0.0 and later Information in this document applies to any platform.

SYMPTOMS
WebLogic has recently been upgraded to WebLogic 12.2.1.2 from 9.2. Post upgrade, the webservice request is not working with below header format exception.

Jun 12, 2017 7:04:03 AM CDT> - [Error in invoking service : java.rmi.RemoteException:
SOAPFaultException - FaultCode [{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server] FaultString [Old
format work area header is disabled.
] FaultActor [null] Detail [javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException: Old format work area header is disabled.
]; nested exception is:
weblogic.wsee.jaxrpc.soapfault.WLSOAPFaultException: Old format work area header is disabled.

SOLUTION
Make sure common same SOAP header format is in use between webservice communications, else disable the work area header validation using the flag below:

 -Dweblogic.wsee.workarea.skipWorkAreaHeader=true