I think I need to use soap

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

SOAP communicates over http this is good because all servers and browsers and servers communicate in this fashion.

Rudiments of SOAP
Envelope - identifies xml document as a soap message(required)
Header - (optional)
Body - contains call and response information (required)
Fault - provides information about errors (optional)

In the header three attributes are defined in the default name space and these attributes define how to process the SOAP message:
actor - are used to specify the message for a specific endpoint due to the fact that not every message is intended to only go to one place.
mustUnderstand - indicates whether the header is mandatory or optional for a recipient to process
encodingStyle -

Fault:
faultcode - A code for identifying the fault
faultstring - A human readable explanation of the fault
faultactor - Information about who caused the fault to happen
detail - Holds application specific error information related to the Body element

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