Hi Tom, I have to agree wholeheartedly on this. Almost every reference guide, tutorial, and document seem to be organized around RPC (which also seems to have limited/harder use, especially when complex messages are needed... nested tags, attributes, etc.)
Thank you, -Raiden Johnson On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Thomas Forrester wrote: > Does anyone out there use the message style services? > > I am coming to the impression that nobody uses these methods, everyone > uses the RPC style. > > Is this the case, if so what do people use for Message style web > services, the JAAXM API's in the JWSDP possibly? > I would appreciate some dialog on this subject to get on the right > track. > I am of the feeling that if I use the JWSDP API's that both Server and > Client have to have be developed with them (but not sure of my ground > here). > > I have looked into the AXIS message service, but have not been able to > get much further than the sing SOAPBodyElement example, and there seems > to be little or no other information out there. > > The message style signatures mentioned in the Axis User Guide are: > public Element [] method(Element [] bodies); > public SOAPBodyElement [] method (SOAPBodyElement [] bodies); > public Document method(Document body); > public void method(SOAPEnvelope req, SOAPEnvelope resp); > > Any help in this direction will be very welcome. > > Message style web service seem best for my problem area, which is to > create a server that polls a database for info, when found that info is > sent to a web service as an XML document, and the server deals with any > SOAP faults in the response. > > Thanks, > > Tom >
