Extracting JAXB entities from inside SOAP wrappers can be done without string-chopping using standard APIs. Example: using standard API. String example = "<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"><soapenv:Header /><soapenv:Body><ns2:farm xmlns:ns2=\"http://adamish.com/example/farm\"><horse height=\"123\" name=\"glue factory\"/></ns2:farm></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>"; SOAPMessage message = MessageFactory.newInstance().createMessage(null, new ByteArrayInputStream(example.getBytes())); Unmarshaller unmarshaller = JAXBContext.newInstance(Farm.class).createUnmarshaller(); Farm farm = (Farm)unmarshaller.unmarshal(message.getSOAPBody().extractContentAsDocument()); Anti-example seen in the wild: string chopping / regex String example =… Continue reading Unmarshalling JAXB entities from SOAP wrappers