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Java Web Services in a Nutshell
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Java Web Services in a Nutshell

by Kim Topley
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
23h 48m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The ebXML Profile

The ebXML initiative aims to create a framework for applications that allow organizations to carry out electronic business by exchanging XML-based messages. The ebXML Transport, Routing, and Packaging (ebXML-TRP) specification (lcoated at http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebMS.pdf) defines the packaging model for ebXML messages, which is based on SOAP with attachments and is therefore compatible with both SAAJ and JAXM. This section briefly describes the ebXML packaging model and looks at how it is supported by the JAXM ebXML profile. The ebXML profile implements Version 1.0 of the ebXML-TRP specification.

Overview of the ebXML Packaging Model

Like WS-Routing, ebXML-TRP uses SOAP headers to carry protocol information. Unlike WS-Routing, however, ebXML-TRP also defines elements that may be added to the SOAP message body. Many of the features described in the ebXML-TRP specification are optional, so we’ll restrict ourselves to briefly discussing just the mandatory parts of the specification, which are the only parts actually provided in the JAXM reference implementation. For a definitive description, refer to the ebXML-TRP specification itself.

ebXML-TRP considers a SOAP message to be made up of two separate parts:

The header container

Despite its name, the header container corresponds to the entire SOAP part of the message and therefore consists of both the SOAP header and the SOAP body. The specification defines six elements that may appear in the header, and four that can ...

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