When I first came across this problem, there was some discussion as to
whether or not it really was a bug in Apache SOAP as it actually has to do
with a problem in the way the XML Security Suite creates the DOM objects
serialized by Apache SOAP (it improperly "declares" namespaces using
setAttribute(...) rather than setAttributeNS(...) ...). I maintain that
it is something that should be addressed in the SOAP code but some of the
other committers disagreed so I never committed the change. In fact, it
is likely they will respond to this note indicating that they don't think
it is a bug and that I probably shouldn't have called it that in the book
;-) Ah well. The point is, Apache SOAP takes in an invalid DOM object
from the XML Security suite and kicks out an invalid XML serialization.
The (we'll call it a "work around") I provide in the book modifies the
Apache SOAP code to produce a proper XML serialization of the DOM.
No need to post the code, I've already got a copy of it ;-) .... if the
others happen to come around to my way of thinking I'll commit the change.
Once you're finished with the book, please drop me a note privately and
let me know what you think of it.
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Subject: Book: Programming Web Service with SOAP and bug in Apache 2.2
Hi.I just joined the group(s).
I just received thenewly publishedO'Reilly bookProgramming Web Service
with SOAP by Snell, Tidwell and Kulchenko.
On page 120 they document a bug in Apache SOAP 2.2 that causes invalid XML
to be produced in some situations (in
org.apache.soap.util.xml.DOM2Writer.java) along with a fix. I searched the
CVS and didn't see any recent change to the file
(http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-soap/java/src/org/apache/soap/util/xml/DOM2Writer.java).There
was no mention of this in the archives either.
Is this bug well known? Hasit been applied to Axis?Are
thereanyseverebugsthat I might want to build from source vs. using Apache
2.2 milestone?
I can postthesuggested source change fromthebook if any contributor is
interested to evaluate and apply to source.
