
18 WebSphere and .Net Interoperability Using Web Services
2.4 Message styles
There are two main SOAP message styles, RPC and Document. The intent of
RPC-Style is to model a remote procedure call as an XML document, whereas
Document-Style is intended for the transmission of XML documents. RPC comes
in two flavors, RPC/Encoded and RPC/Literal. With RPC/Encoded the RPC
request is encoded using special SOAP-encoded XML tags. The usual
Document-Style is Document/Literal, and like RPC/Literal leaves the
interpretation of the XML tags to the use of standard XML mechanisms, such as
XML schemas. There is a difference between the RPC/Literal and
Document/Liter ...