March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 29m
English
SOAP introduces an extensible message format and a common processing model with the purpose of enabling different protocols and interaction patterns. Other specifications define, in a modular, composeable way, the additional artifacts and conventions required to support specific behaviors and protocols. First and foremost, mechanisms must be provided to ensure that messages are correctly delivered to the appropriate destination, or service endpoint. Web Services Addressing defines these mechanisms.
To provide these mechanisms, it’s necessary to resolve at least two different problems. The first is how to identify Web service endpoints. Before this chapter can begin to discuss how the Web services infrastructure ...
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