Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA

Chapter 11. Fundamental Message Design: SOAP Envelope Structure, Fault Messages, and Header Processing

11.1 SOAP Message Structure

11.2 SOAP Nodes and Roles

11.3 SOAP Header Blocks and Targeted Processing

11.4 SOAP Intermediaries

11.5 Fault Messages

So far you’ve seen SOAP mentioned and discussed in previous chapters to various extents. Now we finally get the chance to fully explore this important technology by describing its features and limitations as they relate to Web service contract design. We start off by introducing the fundamental SOAP message structure and then begin a tutorial on the SOAP language.

As you may have already noticed from ...