Retrieving the Order Confirmation

The rest of the placeOrder method retrieves the information returned in reply. The client knows what elements are in it because they are specified in confirm.dtd. After accessing the SOAPBody object, the code retrieves the confirmation element and gets the text of the orderID and ship-date elements. Finally, it constructs and returns a ConfirmationBean with this information.

SOAPBody sBody = reply.getSOAPBody();
Iterator bodyIt = sBody.getChildElements();
SOAPBodyElement sbEl = (SOAPBodyElement)bodyIt.next();
Iterator bodyIt2 = sbEl.getChildElements();

SOAPElement ID = (SOAPElement)bodyIt2.next();
String id = ID.getValue();

SOAPElement sDate = (SOAPElement)bodyIt2.next();
String shippingDate = sDate.getValue();

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
Date date = df.parse(shippingDate);
GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(date);
cb = new ConfirmationBean();
cb.setOrderId(id);
cb.setShippingDate(DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(cal));