Worrow W [http://community.jboss.org/people/worrow] created the discussion "SoapAction not required?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/589821#589821 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I got some Web Service running in Jboss 4.2.3GA.  Tried to build a console client that use the Service with SoapMessage. Here is the code below: // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOAPMessage requestMsg = SoapUtils.emptyMessage();   SOAPPart soapPart = requestMsg.getSOAPPart();   SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();   SOAPBody soapBody = soapEnvelope.getBody();   SOAPHeader soapHeader = soapEnvelope.getHeader();   soapEnvelope.setEncodingStyle(" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/");    requestMsg.getMimeHeaders().addHeader("SOAPAction", "urn:enquireDataset");   Name bodyName = soapEnvelope.createName("enquireDataset", "fd",     " http://impl.ws.eadi.com http://impl.ws.eadi.com");   SOAPBodyElement bodyElement = soapBody.addBodyElement(bodyName);   // userID   Name userID_soap = soapEnvelope.createName("userID", "fd",     " http://impl.ws.eadi.com http://impl.ws.eadi.com");   SOAPElement soapElement = bodyElement.addChildElement(userID_soap);   soapElement.addTextNode(userID);   // password   Name password_soap = soapEnvelope.createName("password", "fd",     " http://impl.ws.eadi.com http://impl.ws.eadi.com");   soapElement = bodyElement.addChildElement(password_soap);   soapElement.addTextNode(password);   // logicalDatasetName   Name logicalDatasetName_soap = soapEnvelope.createName(     "logicalDatasetName", "fd", " http://impl.ws.eadi.com http://impl.ws.eadi.com");   soapElement = bodyElement.addChildElement(logicalDatasetName_soap);   soapElement.addTextNode(logicalDatasetname); // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I called the service, Jboss server threw: 10:27:56,125 ERROR [[AxisServlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet AxisServlet thr ew exception java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1         at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1938) But after I  replaced the SoapAction line with 'requestMsg.getMimeHeaders().addHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");', it works fine.  What is the reason behind this?  Is the value of "SOAPAction" caused the problem[I copied it from wsdl, action tag]?  Or in some case, SoapAction is not required at all? Any help will be really appreciated!  Thanks in advance. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/589821#589821] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]