Hi,
I have a more general question on SOAP. The spec suggests that possible SOAP
requests may travel through multiple SOAP servers. Those SOAP servers may or
may not alter the body somehow.
So, it says that the SOAP header has an actor element that describes the
next SOAP server that it should go to. Is that correct?
How do I describe a chain of SOAP servers? E.g., go to this SOAP server,
then this and then to the final SOAP server? According to the spec, should I
just add multiple actor elements in the header? And, the order of the
elments describes the order of the SOAP servers? Does the SOAP client API
support setting multiple SOAP actors?
Here is, what I want to do.
I) Have a SOAP server accept SOAP requests from Java and non-Java clients.
The SOAP request won't be processed here. Rather, it should look at the SOAP
envelope to determine, to which SOAP server this should go.
II) That's, where I want to use a proprietary JMS protocol to call on
another SOAP server. This SOAP server looks at the SOAP header, and figures
out to which http SOAP server to make the request to.
It seems that the SOAP spec supports and suggests this. Though, could
someone illustrate me with a sample SOAP header, how this would work. Plus,
does Apache and general client SOAP implementations support this?
Thanks a lot,
Hari Nam
