Looking for SOAP examples

[fergunet]

Hi all! I'm using the webservice client to communicate with alfresco without problems, but I would like to study the SOAP messages that I sent to the server to explain them in some courses I'm teaching.

Any program to fetch the messages or a website to find some examples? I've been looking for in this forum and googling but I can't anything useful.

[jbarmash]

Well, the Java SDK abstracts the SOAP from you.   Of course, behind the scenes it's just HTTP. 

You can use the SDK Sample - FirstWebServiceClient to generate some messages, and then use a sniffer to pull out the messages. 

You can also get use a generic SOAP client (for example, in Visual Studio) and to send some messages to Alfresco and pull examine results.

The SOAP API can be found at:
  http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api

Just for reference, this is the link to the Wiki page on SOAP.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Content_Management_Web_Services

[rwetherall]

HI,

If I need to trace the requests and responses when developing the web service API I use TCPMon tool provided in the Axis jar.

To start it run something like the following, ensuring the path is adjusted to your environment …

java -cp D:\work\HEAD\root\projects\3rd-party\lib\axis-1.4.jar org.apache.axis.utils.tcpmon 8090 localhost 8080
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Then point your client to the port 8090 (rather than the usual 8080) and hey presto you'll see the requests and responses as they fly past.

Have fun!
Roy