abstract public Detail createDetail() throws SOAPException
Creates a new Detail object which serves as a container
for DetailEntry objects.

This factory method creates Detail objects for use in
situations where it is not practical to use the SOAPFault
abstraction.

 public SOAPElement createElement(Element domElement) throws SOAPException 
{
                                                                                                                                         
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("createElement(org.w3c.dom.Element) must be overridden by all subclasses of SOAPFactory.");
}

Creates a SOAPElement object from an existing DOM Element. If the DOM Element that is passed in as an argument is already a SOAPElement then this method must return it unmodified without any further work. Otherwise, a new SOAPElement is created and a deep copy is made of the domElement argument. The concrete type of the return value will depend on the name of the domElement argument. If any part of the tree rooted in domElement violates SOAP rules, a SOAPException will be thrown.

 abstract public SOAPElement createElement(Name name) throws SOAPException
Creates a SOAPElement object initialized with the
given Name object. The concrete type of the return value
will depend on the name given to the new SOAPElement. For
instance, a new SOAPElement with the name
"{http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope}Envelope" would cause a
SOAPEnvelope that supports SOAP 1.2 behavior to be created.

 public SOAPElement createElement(QName qname) throws SOAPException 
{
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("createElement(QName) must be overridden by all subclasses of SOAPFactory.");
}

Creates a SOAPElement object initialized with the given QName object. The concrete type of the return value will depend on the name given to the new SOAPElement. For instance, a new SOAPElement with the name "{http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope}Envelope" would cause a SOAPEnvelope that supports SOAP 1.2 behavior to be created.

 abstract public SOAPElement createElement(String localName) throws SOAPException
Creates a SOAPElement object initialized with the
given local name.

 abstract public SOAPElement createElement(String localName,
    String prefix,
    String uri) throws SOAPException
Creates a new SOAPElement object with the given
local name, prefix and uri. The concrete type of the return value
will depend on the name given to the new SOAPElement. For
instance, a new SOAPElement with the name
"{http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope}Envelope" would cause a
SOAPEnvelope that supports SOAP 1.2 behavior to be created.

 abstract public SOAPFault createFault() throws SOAPException
Creates a new default SOAPFault object

 abstract public SOAPFault createFault(String reasonText,
    QName faultCode) throws SOAPException
Creates a new SOAPFault object initialized with the given reasonText
and faultCode

 abstract public Name createName(String localName) throws SOAPException
Creates a new Name object initialized with the
given local name.

This factory method creates Name objects for use in
situations where it is not practical to use the SOAPEnvelope
abstraction.

 abstract public Name createName(String localName,
    String prefix,
    String uri) throws SOAPException
Creates a new Name object initialized with the
given local name, namespace prefix, and namespace URI.

This factory method creates Name objects for use in
situations where it is not practical to use the SOAPEnvelope
abstraction.

 public static SOAPFactory newInstance() throws SOAPException 
{
        try {
            SOAPFactory factory = (SOAPFactory) FactoryFinder.find(SOAP_FACTORY_PROPERTY);
            if (factory != null)
                return factory;
            return newInstance(SOAPConstants.SOAP_1_1_PROTOCOL);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            throw new SOAPException(
                "Unable to create SOAP Factory: " + ex.getMessage());
        }
}

Creates a new SOAPFactory object that is an instance of the default implementation (SOAP 1.1), This method uses the following ordered lookup procedure to determine the SOAPFactory implementation class to load:
• Use the javax.xml.soap.SOAPFactory system property.
• Use the properties file "lib/jaxm.properties" in the JRE directory. This configuration file is in standard java.util.Properties format and contains the fully qualified name of the implementation class with the key being the system property defined above.
• Use the Services API (as detailed in the JAR specification), if available, to determine the classname. The Services API will look for a classname in the file META-INF/services/javax.xml.soap.SOAPFactory in jars available to the runtime.
• Use the SAAJMetaFactory instance to locate the SOAPFactory implementation class.

 public static SOAPFactory newInstance(String protocol) throws SOAPException 
{
            return SAAJMetaFactory.getInstance().newSOAPFactory(protocol);
}

Creates a new SOAPFactory object that is an instance of the specified implementation, this method uses the SAAJMetaFactory to locate the implementation class and create the SOAPFactory instance.