June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
7h 48m
English
So far we have used WebObjects to develop a SOAP server; that is, an application that vends a SOAP service. It is time, however, to look at building a WebObjects application that acts as a client of an external SOAP service.
This is where SOAP services can be of great benefit. It makes it easy to integrate credit-card checking, zip-code checking, news and weather services, and many other functions into a WebObjects application. Depending on your need, you might find that one or more of these SOAP services prove to be very useful indeed.
In this section, we will build a WebObjects Application as a front end to a SOAP service that calculates ...