Java Web Services in a Nutshell

Name

SOAPMessage

Synopsis

public abstract class SOAPMessage {
// Public Constructors
    public SOAPMessage(  ); 
// Property Accessor Methods (by property name)
    public abstract Iterator getAttachments(  ); 
    public abstract Iterator getAttachments MimeHeaders headers); 
    public abstract String getContentDescription(  ); 
    public abstract void setContentDescription(String description); 
    public abstract MimeHeaders getMimeHeaders(  ); 
    public abstract SOAPPart getSOAPPart(  ); 
// Public Instance Methods
    public abstract void addAttachmentPart(AttachmentPart AttachmentPart); 
    public abstract int countAttachments(  ); 
    public abstract AttachmentPart createAttachmentPart(  ); 
    public AttachmentPart createAttachmentPart(javax.activation.DataHandler dataHandler); 
    public AttachmentPart createAttachmentPart(Object content, String contentType); 
    public abstract void removeAllAttachments(  ); 
    public abstract void saveChanges(  ) throws SOAPException; 
    public abstract boolean saveRequired(  ); 
    public abstract void writeTo( java.io.OutputStream out)
        throws SOAPExceptionjava.io.IOException; 
}

SOAPMessage is an abstract class that represents a complete SOAP message. A SOAPMessage object can be obtained from the createMessage( ) method of the MessageFactory class, and consists of several parts:

MIME headers

When a SOAP message is transmitted using a protocol such as HTTP or SMTP, it requires a set of MIME headers that specify, at a minimum, the type of the protocol payload and its length. In the case of a SOAP message with no ...