Herong's Tutorial Notes on Web Service and SOAP
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SOAP Features and Modules

This section describes what are SOAP features and modules..

A SOAP feature is a set of rules that extends the basic SOAP specification for a specific application environment. SOAP specification offers the following guidelines on defining a SOAP feature:

  • It must have a unique name space URI.
  • It should define how a SOAP node should implement this feature.
  • It should define how information will be transmitted from one node to another node.

A SOAP module is a specification of one or more SOAP header blocks. SOAP specification offers the following guidelines on defining a SOAP module:

  • It must have a unique name space URI.
  • It must define SOAP features that are using this module.
  • It must define it own header blocks.

Sections in This Chapter

SOAP Protocol Binding

SOAP Distributed Processing Model

SOAP Features and Modules

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
SOAP Features and Modules