Randy's Stuph: The view from 8000 feet

I recently had the need to log the results of some calls to soap service my app was making. I attached the SimpleHandler to the xml.rpc.client.BasicService

public class SimpleHandler extends GenericHandler {
...
    @Override
    public boolean handleResponse(MessageContext context) {
        try {
            // get the soap header
            SOAPMessageContext smc = (SOAPMessageContext) context;
            SOAPMessage soapMessage = smc.getMessage();
            
            // Create transformer
            TransformerFactory tff = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer tf = tff.newTransformer();
            
            // Get reply content
            Source sc = soapMessage.getSOAPPart().getContent();
            
            // Set output transformation
            ByteArrayOutputStream streamOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(streamOut);
            tf.transform(sc, result);

            String strMessage = streamOut.toString();
            log.info("SOAP MESSAGE:\n"+strMessage+"\n");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("Exception in SimpleHander!");
            throw new JAXRPCException(e);
        }
        return true;
    }
...
}