Herong's Tutorial Notes on Web Service and SOAP
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SOAP Action Feature

This section describes the SOAP Action Feature, its properties and processing rules.

SOAP Action Feature is SOAP feature that can be used with Request-Response Message Exchange Pattern or Response Message Exchange Pattern. This features allows SOAP nodes to communicate to each other with an extra information indicates an activation identification. The feature name is: http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/bindingFramework/ExchangeContext
/ExchangePatternName = http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/features/action/

SOAP Action Feature defines the following additional SOAP properties:

9. SOAP Action: Used to identification of an process action on the response node. This property is named as: http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/features/action/Action

If the binding layer is using "application/soap+xml" media type, the value of the SOAP action property should be included in this media type as the "action" parameter.

Sections in This Chapter

What Are SOAP Message Exchange Patterns?

Request-Response Message Exchange Pattern

Response Message Exchange Pattern

Web Method Feature

SOAP Action Feature

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
SOAP Action Feature