Log all SOAP messages for Tomcat with Axis application

Question

To be able to debug them, I want to see what SOAP messages are sent/received from my Axis web service.

The hosting server is Tomcat.

How can logging of all the SOAP requests/responses be enabled and where is the log file stored?

Answer 1

If you want to log the SOAP messages you will need to create a custom handler. Axis handlers are called when handling the requests/responses so you just have to register your own. Here is an example of how to log the messages .

If you want to write the messages to a file you could use Log4j for example . If you just want to debug the messages you can also use something like Apache TCPMon .