SoapUI is an wonderful time saving tool to test your codes. Yes, it does allow you to add wsdl and auto configure the request envelop but would not it be nice if you know how to handcraft the soap request when you don’t have the wsdl? Here is a simple example that I used to test .net remoting service but you can apply the same steps to configure request to test services running on other technologies.
<!-- SoapUI Request Handcrafted for .Net Remoting Service. -->
<!-- This request attach header of data contract type. The DLL is strongly named. -->
<!-- The header is added to LogicalCallContext. -->
<!-- Add Soapheader: SOAPAction = http://schemas.microsoft.com/clr/nsassem/namespace-of-service.ServiceClassName/ServiceDLLName#AddOperation -->
<soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/clr/nsassem/namespace-of-service.ServiceClassName/ServiceDLLName">
<soapenv:Header>
<h4:__CallContext href="#ref-3" xmlns:h4="http://schemas.microsoft.com/clr/soap/messageProperties"/>
<a1:LogicalCallContext id="ref-3" xmlns:a1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/clr/ns/System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging">
<ClientInformation href="#ref-6"/>
</a1:LogicalCallContext>
<ns2:DataContractClassNameNoNameSpace id="ref-6"
xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/clr/nsassem/DataContractNamespace.ContractClassName/DataContractDLLName%2C%20Version%3D1.0.0.0%2C
%20Culture%3Dneutral%2C%20PublicKeyToken%1Ea568g78r589r35s1">
<DataContractProperty1>Any</DataContractProperty1>
<DataContractProperty2>${=java.util.UUID.randomUUID()}</DataContractProperty2>
<DataContractProperty3>${=new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ").format(new Date())}</DataContractProperty3>
</ns2:DataContractClassNameNoNameSpace >
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<ns1:AddOperation soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<Value1 xsi:type="xsd:long">500</Value1>
<Value2 xsi:type="xsd:long">123</Value2>
</ns1:AddOperation>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
Original posting at SoapUI:
http://www.soapui.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14719