Simple SOAP Client

I was looking for a simple SOAP Client to communicate from Android to Google AppEngine Webservice.

I found this simple soap client to be working.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-soapcl/listing1.html

/**
* SOAPClient4XG. Read the SOAP envelope file passed as the second
* parameter, pass it to the SOAP endpoint passed as the first parameter, and
* print out the SOAP envelope passed as a response. with help from Michael
* Brennan 03/09/01
*
*
* @author Bob DuCharme
* @version 1.1
* @param SOAPUrl URL of SOAP Endpoint to send request.
* @param xmlFile2Send A file with an XML document of the request.
*
* 5/23/01 revision: SOAPAction added
*/

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class SOAPClient4XG {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

if (args.length < 2) { System.err.println("Usage: java SOAPClient4XG " + "http://soapURL soapEnvelopefile.xml" + " [SOAPAction]"); System.err.println("SOAPAction is optional."); System.exit(1); } String SOAPUrl = args[0]; String xmlFile2Send = args[1]; String SOAPAction = ""; if (args.length > 2)
SOAPAction = args[2];

// Create the connection where we're going to send the file.
URL url = new URL(SOAPUrl);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) connection;

// Open the input file. After we copy it to a byte array, we can see
// how big it is so that we can set the HTTP Cotent-Length
// property. (See complete e-mail below for more on this.)

FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(xmlFile2Send);

ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

// Copy the SOAP file to the open connection.
copy(fin,bout);
fin.close();

byte[] b = bout.toByteArray();

// Set the appropriate HTTP parameters.
httpConn.setRequestProperty( "Content-Length",
String.valueOf( b.length ) );
httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml; charset=utf-8");
httpConn.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction",SOAPAction);
httpConn.setRequestMethod( "POST" );
httpConn.setDoOutput(true);
httpConn.setDoInput(true);

// Everything's set up; send the XML that was read in to b.
OutputStream out = httpConn.getOutputStream();
out.write( b );
out.close();

// Read the response and write it to standard out.

InputStreamReader isr =
new InputStreamReader(httpConn.getInputStream());
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(isr);

String inputLine;

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);

in.close();
}

// copy method from From E.R. Harold's book "Java I/O"
public static void copy(InputStream in, OutputStream out)
throws IOException {

// do not allow other threads to read from the
// input or write to the output while copying is
// taking place

synchronized (in) {
synchronized (out) {

byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
while (true) {
int bytesRead = in.read(buffer);
if (bytesRead == -1) break;
out.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
}
}
}
}