It is not a lot of code to change to support this on both the client and the server, and for that matter, for both messaging and RPC. However, no one working on Apache SOAP has chosen to do this with the limited time they spend on the project.
Scott Nichol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashutosh Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Apache SOAP and request only Web Services. > > For client side is it possible to provide this support in Apache SOAP. > Assuming I do not want to go for rpc invocation. I create my soap message > using Apache SOAP. I want to invoke a Web Service using the messge oriented > technique given in the Apache SOAP messaging sample. > > This Web Service is a SOAP/HTTP request only Web Service. Based on my > understanding with existing Web Services implementations, a request only > SOAP/HTTP Web Service will respond back with HTTP STatus code of "202 > Accepted". If we can provide some support in > org.apache.soap.messaging.Message class, so that if it sees HTTP status > code of 202 accepted it will not try to create SOAPEnvelope. I think this > support will be very helpful for people using Apache SOAP client-only API, > in consuming request only web services. > > Just a suggestion. > Thanks > -Ashutosh > > > > > > > > > > |---------+-----------------------------> > | | Scott Nichol | > | | <snicholnews@scott| > | | nichol.com> | > | | | > | | 11/07/2002 08:46 | > | | PM | > | | Please respond to | > | | soap-dev | > | | | > |---------+-----------------------------> > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------| > | | > | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | cc: | > | Subject: Re: Apache SOAP and request only Web Services. | > | | > | | > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > Apache SOAP does not currently implement something equivalent the > one-way ports specified in WSDL > (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.html#_one-way). I am not certain what > specification says how to implement this on HTTP. Microsoft has the > server respond with an empty (no entity) HTTP response with some magic > status like "216 Received" after the SOAP request is validated, but > before the service is actually executed. I would like to have this in > Apache SOAP, but have not yet had time to add it. > > The current Apache SOAP code (1) always executes the service before > transmitting an HTTP response and (2) always transmits a SOAP envelope > as the HTTP entity. The closest thing to one-way operations is any > service with a void return type. > > Scott Nichol > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ashutosh Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:20 PM > Subject: Apache SOAP and request only Web Services. > > > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to invoke request only Web Services using Apache SOAP? > I > > want to use SOAP/HTTP to invoke a request only Web SErvice. Is there > any > > way I can leverage Apache SOAP to do that? Is there any sample code > that I > > can refer to? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > -Ashutosh > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-help@;xml.apache.org> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-help@;xml.apache.org> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-help@;xml.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-dev-help@;xml.apache.org>
