
A factory for creating
SOAPMessage objects.
A SAAJ client can create a MessageFactory object
using the method newInstance, as shown in the following
lines of code.
MessageFactory mf = MessageFactory.newInstance();
MessageFactory mf12 = MessageFactory.newInstance(SOAPConstants.SOAP_1_2_PROTOCOL);
All MessageFactory objects, regardless of how they are
created, will produce SOAPMessage objects that
have the following elements by default:
- A
SOAPPart object
- A
SOAPEnvelope object
- A
SOAPBody object
- A
SOAPHeader object
In some cases, specialized MessageFactory objects may be obtained that produce messages
prepopulated with additional entries in the
SOAPHeader object and the
SOAPBody object.
The content of a new
SOAPMessage object depends on which of the two
MessageFactory methods is used to create it.
createMessage()
This is the method clients would normally use to create a request message.
createMessage(MimeHeaders, java.io.InputStream) -- message has
content from the InputStream object and headers from the
MimeHeaders object
This method can be used internally by a service implementation to
create a message that is a response to a request.