October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 4m
English

At the heart of Web services today are SOAP and WSDL, so it's important that you have a good understanding of them and how they're used. That said, memorizing the details of SOAP and WSDL is not critical. While these technologies are central to Web services, in many cases you may not deal with them directly, as they will be hidden in the communication and deployment layer of the J2EE Web Services platform.
This part of the book covers SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1. Although support for SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1 is required by the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, support for SOAP Messages with Attachments is not. SwA is a significant feature of ...