Java, SAAJ, and Object Factories

JBoss comes with their own implementation of SAAJ, and yet tonight I’ve been doing nothing but dealing with exception after exception getting it working. javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Unable to create message factory for SOAP: org.jboss.ws.core.soap.MessageFactoryImpl

So off I go to import the Sun SAAJ implementation from my favorite Maven repository:

  <dependency>
     <groupId>javax.xml.soap</groupId>
     <artifactId>saaj-impl</artifactId>
     <version>1.3</version>
     <scope>compile</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
     <groupId>javax.xml.soap</groupId>
     <artifactId>saaj-api</artifactId>
     <version>1.3</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>

So what’s my problem. Simple. The world, especially the world of SOAP messages, should go more like so:

 SOAPMessage msg = new SOAPMessage(); 

and less like

MessageFactory mFact = javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory.newInstance(); 
SOAPMessage msg = mFact.createMessage();

Let me do less dealing with infrastructure at instantiation, and more at presentation.