Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build, & Manage XML Applications in Java, C, C++, & PL/SQL

CHAPTER 6XML Messaging and RPC with SOAP

The Oracle E-Business Suite of applications offers companies a new and better way to conduct business. The E-Business Suite combines customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management, and internal operations as a fully integrated solution. The Oracle E-Business XML Services component, which is available in release 11.5.6 of Oracle Applications, provides a framework and system infrastructure for deployment, management, and run-time execution of XML Services, the foundation for developing a new generation of Web-enabled e-business applications. Central to this notion of XML Services is the concept of XML messaging based on SOAP, which underlies the communication of these applications via their ...