Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

Chapter 2. XML Protocols: XML-RPC and SOAP

Before we can explore the available APIs for processing XML documents with Java, we're going to need a few good examples. Throughout most of this book, the examples will focus on XML protocols. These are XML applications used for machine-to-machine exchange of information across the Internet over HTTP. In this chapter I'll show you how such documents move from one machine to another, and how you can use Java to interpose yourself in the process. However, because this is not a book about network programming, I will be careful to keep all the details of network transport separate from the generation and processing of XML documents. When working with an XML document, it's unimportant whether it came from ...