SOAP  Chapter 2: Understanding the Web Services Producer

Chapter 1: Understanding Adaptive Server Enterprise Web Services

SOAP message structure

A SOAP message consists of a header and a body, both of which are contained in a SOAP envelope:

Figure 1-1: SOAP message structure

Following is an example of SOAP request message for a select statement.

Figure 1-2: SOAP request message

The request message contains no header information. The following SOAP response message corresponds to the previous request message. This message contains a header. The body of the message is not shown.

Figure 1-3: SOAP response message

For more detailed information on SOAP, refer to the following documents:





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