If you are building the service with Axis, then your interface will be implemented using SOAP, and descibed using WSDL. The WSDL should fully describe the structure of the input and output message using XML Schema.
In WSDL parlence, a service can be defined as document/literal, rpc/literal, or rpc/encoded. For best interoperability, you should use document/literal.
From a programming perspective, document/literal services can conform to two types of conventions: wrapped and unwrapped. Wrapped produces a programming interface that looks and feels a lot like RMI. It takes parameters in and returns a return value (simple type or bean). Unwrapped produces a similar programming interface, but it doesn't accept multiple parameters. It takes a bean in and return a return value.
You can also develop your service using a messaging style interface, in which Axis accepts a DOM Document or Element aray as input and returns a DOM Document or Element array.
See the Wiki for more info:
http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis/StyleInWSDDAndWSDL
On 2/24/06, Santunu Podder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hi all,
I am new to Web services and so would require some guidance to start with.
If I would like to deploy a webservice having clients in different
platforms (e.g. .NET, C# etc), should I go for RPC or XML ?
On what basis do I decide this?
And as a part of agrrement with all partners what should I provide them ?
Is it only the WSDL file generated by AXIS or are there something else
also?
Regards,
Santunu
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