WL : Getting a Weblogic SOAP wire trace

If you are using the BEA Weblogic webservices for a Java SOAP client, you can see what is being sent on the wire by adding the following VM command line argument:

-Dweblogic.webservice.verbose=true

e.g. if you are using Eclipse, you can specify this under "Run / Arguments / VM Arguments".

The console will then display something like:

!-------------------- REQUEST ----------------
URL :
Headers :
SOAPAction: [""]
Content-Type: [text/xml]

... SOAP request

!-------------------- END REQUEST ------------

!-------------------- RESPONSE ---------------
URL : Response Code :200
Headers :
Date=Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:15:40 GMT
Server=Apache
Keep-Alive=timeout=30, max=199
Connection=Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding=chunked
Content-Type=text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Envelope :

... SOAP response

!-------------------- END RESPONSE -----------

Enjoy!