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.

Last update: 2007.

Sections in This Chapter

SOAP Protocol Binding

SOAP Distributed Processing Model

SOAP Features and Modules

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2009
SOAP Features and Modules