SOAP Web Service Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.13, by Herong Yang
What Is SOAP
This section provides a quick summary of SOAP protocol.
What Is SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)? SOAP is an XML based protocol intended for exchanging structured information in a distributed application environment. Visit https://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ for more information.
There are 2 versions of SOAP specifications as of today:
Version Release Date Namespace SOAP 1.2 April 27, 2007 http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope SOAP 1.1 May 8, 2000 http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
SOAP 1.2 specification is divided into two parts.
SOAP part 1 defines the SOAP messaging framework, which contains the following key concepts:
SOAP part 2 defines a set of adjuncts that can be used to extend the SOAP messaging framework:
SOAP is actually a communication protocol that defines how a message should be constructed, transmitted from one node to another, and processed by each node as shown in the following diagram:
SOAP node | | Construct an initial SOAP message | Bind the initial message for transmission | Transmit the initial message v ----------> SOAP node | | Receive the initial message | Process some part of the initial message | Reconstruct an intermediate SOAP message | Bind the intermediate message for transmission | Transmit the intermediate message v ----------> SOAP node | | ... v ----------> SOAP node | | Receive the final message | Process the final message v Done
Table of Contents
►Introduction to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
SOAP Message Transmission and Processing
SOAP MEP (Message Exchange Patterns)
PHP SOAP Extension Client Programs
PHP SOAP Extension Server Programs
PHP SOAP Web Service Example - getTemp
Perl SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module
Perl Socket Test Program for HTTP and SOAP
Perl SOAP::Lite for NumberToWords SOAP 1.1 Web Service
Perl SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Services
Java Socket and HttpURLConnection for SOAP
SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java
SoapUI - SOAP Web Service Testing Tool
WS-Security - SOAP Message Security Extension
WS-Security X.509 Certificate Token
Perl SOAP::Lite for GetSpeech SOAP 1.1 Web Service
Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 for SOAP 1.2 Web Services
Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 for WSDL