Have you tried the tracing tool that comes with axis? It's been a while
since I tried it and maybe I didn't understand what you want correctly,
but the tool sits between your client and server and displays all messages
passed.

-Teemu

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Tim Wood wrote:

> I have a Java Web service client and a server that talk to each other successfully. The server implements a JAX-RPC-based Web service and offers a WSDL file for download so the client can create dynamic client-side objects. All tests pass. I just need a way to capture the SOAP messages going between client and server. I cannot find any such tools around java.sun.com and I don't see a way to get at the SOAPMessage object during an RPC to write the message somewhere.
>
> I want to trace this because I am going to interface a Perl SOAP::Lite client to the server and want to verify that the right SOAP is being exchanged.
>
> Someone in another discussion suggested the MS SOAP Toolkit v3, which I have. It seems to get confused by the initial WSDL download by the client, before the SOAP calls are made. (I got it to crash during my test suite sometime after. :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> TW
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