NOTE: These slides have not been updated since 2003. They have been superseded by the book An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies Addison-Wesley, and the accompanying online material. Please see http://www.brics.dk/ixwt/ for more information. Anders Møller and Michael Schwartzbach, February 2006

INTERACTIVE WEB SERVICES WITH JAVA

SOAP

It's big (500 page spec and still growing):

• Part 1: Messaging Framework
• Part 2: Adjuncts
• Email Binding
• Attachment Feature
• ...

Typical message exchange styles:

• document-style (one-way XML messages)
• RPC (Remote Procedure Call, request-response)

• HTTP (not the same as the HTTP binding for WSDL!)
• SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol)

- there are simpler alternatives to SOAP, e.g. XML-RPC

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