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In last post I walked through the steps for developing a simple RESTFull service using apache CXF. In this post I will be talking about developing SOAP web service using CXF. Before moving forward let us understand few of the concepts/elements which makes up a SOAP web service
SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over the network using application protocols like http, smtp, etc as carrier. SOAP message comprises of a SOAP envelope. The envelope can be broken into a header and a body. Header contains context related definitions like security while the body contains actual application data. A typical SOAP message looks like
<?xml version="1.0"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <soap:Header> </soap:Header> <soap:Body> <m:GetStockPrice xmlns:m="http://www.example.org/stock"> <m:StockName>IBM</m:StockName> </m:GetStockPrice> </soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/06/developing-soap-web-service-using-apache-cxf.html
