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'm not pleased with this solution, but as it turns out you can actually cast the message to a SOAPMessage which gives you full access to all the SAAJ apis. From there you can build whatever elements you want inside the header.