Spring: WebServiceTransportException: Not Found [404] for very simple WS client

Question

I am trying to write a client for publicly exposed service. I only need to pass raw XML (as Java string) and view raw response. No binding is required.

Service is publicly exposed here: http://www.webservicex.net/periodictable

I verified that following request XML works correctly (via Soap UI):

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://www.webserviceX.NET">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <web:GetAtomicWeight>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <web:ElementName>Aluminium</web:ElementName>
      </web:GetAtomicWeight>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I am using Spring's template for WS, Maven dependency here:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Now, here is my simple "main" application. It just delegates XML string to Spring's WebServiceTemplate and expect to see result in System.out.

package sk.xorty.ws;

import org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate;
import org.springframework.ws.soap.client.core.SoapActionCallback;
import org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory;

import javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPConstants;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPException;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import java.io.StringReader;

public class WsTest {

    private static final String REQUEST_PERIODIC =
            "<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope\" xmlns:web=\"http://www.webserviceX.NET\">\n" +
            "   <soap:Header/>\n" +
            "   <soap:Body>\n" +
            "      <web:GetAtomicWeight>\n" +
            "         <web:ElementName>Aluminium</web:ElementName>\n" +
            "      </web:GetAtomicWeight>\n" +
            "   </soap:Body>\n" +
            "</soap:Envelope>\n";

    private static final String URL_PERIODIC = "http://www.webservicex.net/periodictable";

    private final WebServiceTemplate webServiceTemplate = new WebServiceTemplate();

    // send to an explicit URI
    public void customSendAndReceive() throws SOAPException {
        MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance(SOAPConstants.SOAP_1_2_PROTOCOL);
        SaajSoapMessageFactory newSoapMessageFactory = new SaajSoapMessageFactory(messageFactory);
        webServiceTemplate.setMessageFactory(newSoapMessageFactory);

        StreamSource source = new StreamSource(new StringReader(REQUEST_PERIODIC));
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);
        webServiceTemplate.sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(URL_PERIODIC, source,
                new SoapActionCallback("GetAtomicWeight"), result);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws SOAPException {
        new WsTest().customSendAndReceive();
    }
}

Example is runnable (it only needs dependency above in classpath). It throws following error:

INFO: Creating SAAJ 1.3 MessageFactory with SOAP 1.1 Protocol
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.ws.client.WebServiceTransportException: Not Found [404]
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.handleError(WebServiceTemplate.java:663)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.doSendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:587)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.sendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:537)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.doSendAndReceive(WebServiceTemplate.java:492)
    at org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate.sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(WebServiceTemplate.java:436)
    at sk.xorty.ws.WsTest.customSendAndReceive(WsTest.java:38)
    at sk.xorty.ws.WsTest.main(WsTest.java:43)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)

EDIT: Correct value for request is this one:

private static final String REQUEST_PERIODIC = "<web:GetAtomicWeight xmlns:web=\"http://www.webserviceX.NET\">\n" +
        "         <!--Optional:-->\n" +
        "         <web:ElementName>Aluminium</web:ElementName>\n" +
        "      </web:GetAtomicWeight>";

Answer 1

I think your problem has to do with the soapActionCallBack. You are calling the operation only not the operation with the uri. Below is the example from here:

If you remark the namespace is http://tempuri.org and the provided argument for soapActionCallback is http://tempuri.org/SOAPACTION*

 WebServiceTemplate template = new WebServiceTemplate(messageFactory);
 Result result = new DOMResult();
 template.sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(
     new StringSource("<content xmlns=\"http://tempuri.org\"/>"),
     new SoapActionCallback("http://tempuri.org/SOAPAction"),
     result);

In your case, the soap action should be http://www.webserviceX.net/GetAtomicWeight ( I am not so sure about the capitalization though)

Answer 2

If you are using annotations, make sure the namespace attribute of the following annotations match the namespace attribute of the corresponding WSDL Elements:

@XmlRootElement(namespace = "http://webService.mydomain.com", name = "someSOAPRequest")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(propOrder = {      
        "xmlTag#1",
        "xmlTag#2",
        "xmlTag#3",
        "xmlTag#4",
},  namespace = "http://webService.mydomain.com", name = "someSOAPRequest")

If you are not using annotations make sure the namespace attributes match between the code and the WSDL elements.

Answer 3

I had the same error and I was using Soap1.1, I've noticed that the WS was exposed by Spring throgh the @SoapAction annotation and my client generated with Spring WS and JAXB did not set any soapAction by default, so I had to use a SoapActionCallback to set it with the SoapAction specified in WSDL for that operation.

 SoapActionCallback soapActionCallback = new SoapActionCallback("restituisciStatiMessaggioListRequestSA");
    RestituisciStatiMessaggioListResponse response = (RestituisciStatiMessaggioListResponse) getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(request,soapActionCallback);

Answer 4

I fixed my issue by removing SOAP request headers from my message. So let spring worry about the SOAP request, and your code just sends your request data.

So try:

   private static final String REQUEST_PERIODIC =
               "<web:GetAtomicWeight xmlns:web=\"http://www.webserviceX.NET\">\n" +
               "    <web:ElementName>Aluminium</web:ElementName>\n" +
               "</web:GetAtomicWeight>\n";