Add child elements to custom SOAP header in Spring-WS

Question

I am calling a SOAP webservice with Spring-WS. The webservice in question requires me to pass some information in the SOAP header as shown here:

Answer 1

I came across the same issue, here's my solution but it will work only simple elements not for complex:

template.marshalSendAndReceive(request, new WebServiceMessageCallback(){
    public void doWithMessage(WebServiceMessage message) throws IOException, TransformerException{
        SaajSoapMessage soapMessage = (SaajSoapMessage) message;
        SoapHeaderElement messageId =  soapMessage.getSoapHeader().addHeaderElement(new QName("http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing", "MessageID", "wsa"));
        messageId.setText("urn:abcdef1234");
    }
});

it produces following XML:

  urn:abcdef1234

BTW javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage can work too, see here: http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/bnbhr.html#bnbia