I'm starting a new series today called Tip Of The Day. In this series I'll respond to technical questions asked directly to me, on forums or other aliases. These questions might have been answered else where and this will be a summary of such tips in that case.

This tip tells how to monitor SOAP messages in Metro (the Web services stack in GlassFish). There are couple of ways to monitor SOAP messages:

1. For client-side message logging, set system property com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true. For server-side message logging, set system property com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true.

2. If you want more fine-grained logging, then consider using the logging properties defined here.

Another option is to use wsmonitor.

How do you monitor SOAP messages ?

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