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How to write a Axis2 Message Builder

Apache Axis2 is a open source SOAP/ Web services engine which consists of many extension points. Message Builders and Message Formatters are two ways we can extend the axis2 transport framework.In this post i’m going to explain the idea of Message builders and how we can implement a custom message builder and use it. As i mentioned above Axis2 is a SOAP engine. So it only accept SOAP messages for processing. So then a problem comes that how we can use axis2 with non-soap invocations like REST. So to convert row non soap content coming from a transport to a SOAP content we can use Message builders. This can really be useful when your in coming message have a non-xml format and you need to invoke a web service or process it with the axis2 engine with the given content information. Its simple to Write your own Message builder. First what you have to do is write a class implementing org.apache.axis2.builder.Builder interface in the Axis2 Kernal module. The Builder method signature we n