Why should you use servlets when you can write directly to a socket? Why use XML when you can write a binary file?
It's a higher level abstraction. What you are doing is ok for simple stuff but try processing SOAP headers. Try exposing a standard java object as a web service. You can't do it without a lot of effort but Axis can. -----Original Message----- From: Jinghua Gu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what is advantage of document based APIs over HTTP post method? Hi All, For document based Soap APIs, we use Soap engine to pass XML document over wire then get response back to the client, which can be achieved by HTTP POST method as well. The difference is the latter doesn't use AXIS engine. If we are only interested HTTP protocol, AXIS engine is extra layer to the applications. Can you enlighten me what advantage the document based APIs have over HTTP POST method? Thanks, Emily
