Hi! I would like your opinions or suggestions if available.I am in the design phase of a File Transfer server (similar to FTP) that will implement its protocol through SOAP.What I mean?That the server will exhange protocol commands with its clients through SOAP-XML envelopes. I have to say I quite familiar with XML parsers and Java too.The whole implementation will be in Java.In tha last 2 weeks I am investigating SOAP through books , web resources , etc. Most of the resources I have found ,are dealing with SOAP as part of the Web Services thing!Thats fine with me.But in my case I have some concernes!
As you can understand I want only to use SOAP messages , for my server and clients.Imagine that my envelopes will have some FTP like commands.Thats all.I am in the design phase of the protocol itself , and I am bit stuck in way , on how my messages will be travelling through the wire.The thing that worries me about is tha SOAP is almost bound top HTTP.In my case I dont think that I really need HTTP? What do you think about that?My solution is to send SOAP envelopes, through plain socket /stream connections .The other thing that worries me about is that i still dont know if existing JAVA SOAP libraries like APACHE , JAXM can help me deal easily with SOAP messages that are not bind to HTTP wrapper..has anyone tried something like that?So probably using Apache Xerces I have to provide a mechanism for marshalling and demarshalling my SOAP over the wire!I know it sounds like reinventing the wheel. I really understand the use of HTTP when it comes to Web Services , but in my case I dont think is neccesary.I am really trying to find out , if that use of SOAP can be described as message-style SOAP .For those who might ask why SOAP , you can use any custom XML protocol , I shall answer that is the spec and I cant do anything about that.It is going to be a weird use of SOAP anyway! Thank you in advance A.P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-help@;xml.apache.org>
