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| <h1>Apache Axis2 User's Guide - Introduction to Services</h1> |
| |
| <p>The term "Web services" can apply to a number of different ways |
| of sending information back and forth. However, this guide focuses |
| on the sending and receiving of SOAP messages. SOAP messages are |
| XML documents that consist of an "envelope" containing a "payload" |
| (see Code Listing 4).</p> |
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| Exchange Patterns</b></a></li> |
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| Clients</a><br /> |
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| Plain Old Java Objects</a></li> |
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| and running an Axis2 service created from WSDL</a></li> |
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| <h3><a name="Code_Listing_4:_Example_SOAP_Message"></a>Code Listing 4: Example SOAP Message</h3> |
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| <pre> |
| <?xml version='1.0' ?> |
| <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" |
| xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/03/addressing"> |
| <env:Header> |
| |
| <wsa:MessageID> |
| http://ws.apache.org/9C21DE32-DB42-1228-C42E-66CB101421AD |
| </wsa:MessageID> |
| <wsa:ReplyTo> |
| <wsa:Address>http://example.com/projects/clientApp</wsa:Address> |
| </wsa:ReplyTo> |
| |
| <wsa:To>http://example.com/axis2/publishingService</wsa:To> |
| |
| <wsa:Action>http://example.com/axis2/addDocument</wsa:Action> |
| |
| </env:Header> |
| <env:Body> |
| |
| <addDocument> |
| <docTitle>What I Did On My Summer Vacation</doctitle> |
| <docSubtitle>Children's Essays from Accross the World</docSubtitle> |
| <docLocation>contentRepos/summerVac.doc</docLocation> |
| </addDocument> |
| |
| </env:Body> |
| </env:Envelope> |
| </pre></div> |
| |
| <p>This XML document consists of the outer element or the SOAP |
| Envelope, and its contents. The SOAP Envelope is in the SOAP |
| namespace, http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope, prefixed as |
| env: and contains up to two children. This envelope is a standard |
| format that pertains to every single SOAP message sent and received |
| by any SOAP Web service.</p> |
| |
| <p>The contents of the Envelope consists of two parts; the first |
| being the SOAP headers-the contents of the env:Header element. |
| These headers, such as the WS-Addressing elements shown here, |
| provide additional information about the message and how it should |
| be handled. A SOAP message may carry headers relating to several |
| aspects of the message, or it may carry no headers at all. These |
| headers are typically processed by the message handlers.</p> |
| |
| <p>The second and arguably the most important part of the message |
| is the payload, which consists of the contents of the env:Body |
| element. This is the actual message intended for the receiver, and |
| it is the information that the main application will ultimately |
| process.</p> |
| <a name="messageexchange" id="messageexchange"></a> |
| </section><section> |
| <h2><a name="Message_Exchange_Patterns"></a>Message Exchange Patterns</h2> |
| |
| <p>Although all SOAP messages carry the same structure, the ways in |
| which they are used can be combined into a number of different |
| "message exchange patterns", or MEPs. The two major message |
| exchange patterns are:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| |
| <li>In-Out: in this MEP, the client sends a SOAP message to the |
| server, which processes the message and sends a response back. This |
| is probably the most commonly used MEP, and is useful for tasks |
| such as searching for information or submitting information in |
| situations in where acknowledgment is important.</li> |
| |
| <li>In-Only: In this MEP, the client sends a message to the server |
| without expecting a response. You may use this MEP for activities |
| such as pinging a server to wake it up, reporting logging |
| information for which you do not need an acknowledgment and so |
| on.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Within these two MEPs, you also have several variables to |
| consider:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| |
| <li>Blocking versus non-blocking: When the client sends a message, |
| the application may wait to receive a response before moving on, or |
| it may simply send a message and move on by specifying a callback |
| action to be completed when the response is received.</li> |
| |
| <li>Number of parameters: Ultimately, a message sent from a client |
| to server is intended to execute a particular action. That action |
| may not require any parameters, or it may require one or more |
| parameters. These parameters must be encoded as part of the payload |
| of the message.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Taking all these options into consideration, you can create |
| virtually any MEP. For example, you can create an Out-Only system |
| by reversing roles for the In-Only MEP. Apache Axis2 also includes |
| support for less prominent MEPs, such as Robust-In-Only.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>See Next Section</b> - <a href="userguide-creatingclients.html#createclients">Creating |
| Clients</a></p> |
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