138 Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes for IBM WebSphere Process Server V6
The body section contains the content of the SOAP message. When used by
Web services, the SOAP body contains XML-formatted data. This data is
specified in the WSDL that describes the Web service.
When talking about SOAP, it is common to talk about SOAP in combination with
the transport protocol that is used to communicate the SOAP message. For
example, SOAP that is transported using HTTP is referred to as
SOAP over
HTTP
.
The most common transport that is used to communicate SOAP messages is
HTTP. This is expected because Web services are designed to use Web
technologies. However, SOAP can also be communicated using Java Message
Services (JMS) as a transpor ...