Spring-WS webservice with MTOM attachment - Hello world test

Question

I am trying to create a simple Spring webservice which when called returns a file attachment as part of the SOAP response. The Enpoint class is shown below:

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Answer 1

Finally managed to get it to work. The configuration is more or less the same as what i had in my original post. I had to update the configuration file. Here is how my configuration file looks like now.

The changes i added were based on what i read on this article - blog.hpxn.net/2012/06/

Edit - An example

Here is an example (based on the spring samples) that returns the attachment in MTOM format. I just tried it and the response is shown below:

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Accept: text/xml, text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Type: Multipart/Related; start-info="text/xml"; type="application/xop+xml"; boundary="----=_Part_0_17910623.1342789122256"
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:58:42 GMT

------=_Part_0_17910623.1342789122256
Content-Type: application/xop+xml; charset=utf-8; type="text/xml"

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------=_Part_0_17910623.1342789122256
Content-Type: image/png
Content-ID: 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

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Note that i have not configured any Axiom factories. The necessary files are listed below:

schema.xsd

spring-ws-servlet.xml

web.xml

    MyCompany HR Holiday Service

    
        spring-ws
        org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet
    

    
        spring-ws
        /*
    

To get the response returned as a SAAJ attachment rather than an MTOM attachment, i have to manually configure the SAAj factories as described in this thread How do I add an attachment to a response payload in Spring-WS?