This Tutorial provides tutorial notes and example codes on WSDL 2.0 APIs and tools. Topics include a quick summary of programming APIs and testing tools; PHP 5.3.1 SOAP Extension and Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 do not support WSDL 2.0; Axis2 1.4.1 and Woden 1.0M8 do support WSDL 2.0.

Web Services Monitor GUI that captures, displays and manipulates SOAP messages. The XML beautifier makes it easy to analyze even complex messages.

The SOA Infrastructure Blog is a blog about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), SOA Management, Semantic Integration, Real Time Data Management, and SOA Integration. Contributors include David Bressler, Tim Dempsey, Dan Foody, Ken Rugg and Giles Nelson.

This tutorial helps you to learn: What are SOAP message exchange patterns? What is Request-Response Message Exchange Pattern? What is Response Message Exchange Pattern? What is Web Method Feature? What is SOAP Action Feature?

This tutorial describes: * Generic SOAP message structure. * SOAP fault message structure.

This tutorial describes: What is SOAP? A SOAP communication example.

This tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Web service and SOAP himself. Topics include ActivePerl, Axis, Binding, Data Model, Encoding, HTTP, Java, Message, Message Exchange Patterns, NuSOAP, online, PEAR, PHP, Properties, RPC, SOA, SOAP 1.2, SOAP Extension, SOAP::Lite, UDDI, Web Method, Web service, WSDL

SOAP/AM consists of two products: SOAP/AM Server, which allows you to expose your Pathway servers as Web Sevices, and SOAP/AM Client, which allows your NonStop-based applications to access Web Services anywhere. Both products NSK-based so they run under Guardian -- OSS is not required. Fully-functional, no-obligation 30-day evaluation available.

I've lost count of the number of XML standard acronyms in this alphabet soup, distinguished from the myriad of technology acronyms by the preponderance of letters X and M. Switching food metaphors, I like broccoli but I know many people do not. I also monitor the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C") avidly, and I know most of you do not. To keep track of W3C pronouncements on everything from HTML to XML, I have developed and maintain a standards database that has swelled to over 150 entries and grows monthly. I suspect most of you do not spend your idle hours this way. So, without trying to convince you that this activity is good for you and that you should do the XML standards equivalent of eating your broccoli, I will explain why I monitor the W3C and other sites. Perhaps you'll see how stewards of econtent might also find it useful and even develop a taste for it.

SOAP-over-UDP and related specifications are provided as-is and for review and evaluation only. BEA Systems, Lexmark, Microsoft, and Ricoh make no warrantees or representations regarding the specifications in any manner whatsoever.

I was surprised to see an old rant of mine quoted in Dr. Dobb's Python-URL. Of late I've simply ceased to think about SOAP. It has become an irrelevance. I rarely come across SOAP in my sojourns. I'm not sure whether this is just bias coloring experience. I had two recent run-ins with SOAP late last year: one while using Java and one while using Python. The state of Python's SOAP implementations seemed a complete mess because of neglect. The state of Java's SOAP implementations seemed a complete mess for a near-opposite reason: energetic conformance to the many SOAP flavors. This slavishness to SOAP's worst aspects makes it impossible to figure out how to portably work with rich data using SOAP. If you're not sticking to Java's primitive data types (in particular, if you're thinking of your data in XML terms), there is no chance these libraries will fit your head.

Vordel, the XML Web Services security company, announced that download statistics for Vordel SOAPbox reveal which industries are experiencing the fastest rate of adoption for Web Services.

With offices in 35 countries, Future Electronics, the third largest electronic distributor in the world, has developed its own enterprise apps to run its operations. But the firm needed a way to integrate all of its global systems.

When you're through with this sample book chapter, you'll know not only how to use SOAP straight out of the box but also how to extend SOAP to support your diverse and changing needs. You'll have also followed the development of a meaningful e-commerce Web service in Java.

With offices in 35 countries, the IT operation at Future Electronics, the third largest electronics distributor in the world, developed its own enterprise applications to run its operations. But the organization needed a way to integrate all of its global systems.

SOAP allows business software programs to communicate over the Internet regardless of the platform on which they are based. The Understanding SOAP FAQs answer some of your most pressing questions about this technology and shed light on why SOAP is such an important topic.

Sometimes things can go wrong when code is executed, so Exceptions are thrown. When your application exposes services through a webservice layer, SoapExceptions are thrown from the server to the client. By default normal Exceptions are converted to a SoapException, resulting in a rather ugly Exception containing all information concatenated in a long String. But luckily the SOAP protocol allows any XML document to be included in SOAP error messages. This article shows how to build some helper classes to easily pass error information from the server to the client through a webservice layer.

SOAP. No, not the kind that leaves you feeling zestfully clean, the kind that allows you to do RPC over HTTP. Everyone is singing the praises of SOAP recently, especially those of us that are learning the ropes of .NET development. I, however, am not. But I haven't been singing them since SOAP and XML-RPC were first announced. I hate SOAP more than the French. (And if you're French, please knowthat I'm only kidding...)

You can send SOAP HTTP requests to the server computer that is running Microsoft® SQLXML to execute a stored procedure or an XML template. The server running SQLXML executes the requested and returns the corresponding SOAP response to the client.

In this article, the author examines how JAX-RPC SOAP handlers process SOAP message headers. Specifically, he shows how a handler adds a SOAP header to an outgoing message and how a corresponding handler removes the SOAP header from an incoming message. In addition, he presents the JAX-RPC programmatic configuration and deployment models as they relate to this topic.