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 had the same issue and resolved it with the following snippet:

Result result = ((SoapMessage) message).getSoapHeader().getResult();
webServiceTemplate.getMarshaller().marshal(createCustomHeader(), result);

The createCustomerHeader() method creates a JAXB bean which was generated from the XSD.