Overview of SAAJ
This section presents a high-level view of how SAAJ messaging works and explains concepts in general terms. Its goal is to give you some terminology and a framework for the explanations and code examples that are presented in the tutorial section.
The overview looks at SAAJ from two perspectives: messages and connections.
Messages
SAAJ messages follow SOAP standards, which prescribe the format for messages and also specify some things that are required, optional, or not allowed. With the SAAJ API, you can create XML messages that conform to the SOAP 1.1 and WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 specifications simply by making Java API calls.
The Structure of an XML Document
Note
For more information on XML documents, see Chapters 2 and 4.
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