---- snip ---- This works just fine. Thanks again but, my (SOAP) clients are sending me (the SOAP server) an xml file wrapped in an SOAP envelope as follows. How do I know what service they are requesting? And, what params they have sent?
<?xml version="1.0"?> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> <env:Header/> <env:Body> <SubmitRequest xmlns="http://abc.def.ghi/jkl/mno"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://abc.def.ghi/jkl/xyz.xsd";> <DefaultStatus location="SOME LOCATION"> <ResourceStatus>OutAndOver</ResourceStatus> </DefaultStatus> </SubmitRequest> </env:Body> </env:Envelope> ---- snip ---- Usually, the server is written and the clients must conform to it. It is quite strange to sort of reverse-engineer a server based on a client payload. You may find the SOAP 1.1 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/), and even WSDL 1.1 (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.html) helpful with your issues. There are three parts of a SOAP message typically used to specify the service and method. Those are the SOAPAction header, the namespace of the first child element of the SOAP Body element, and the name (local part) of that element. Apache SOAP does not use the SOAPAction header. The element namespace picks the Java class, and the element name picks the method to call. Using the element name follows the SOAP 1.1 spec. So, the payload above would specify the class associated with the targetObjectURI of http://abc.def.ghi/jkl/mno, and the method SubmitRequest. What I have just said is the naive analysis. The payload above uses literal encoding, rather than SOAP encoding. Apache SOAP has poor support for literal encoding, and that is limited to the client. For endpoints to understand payloads such as that shown above, they would typically require WSDL. The WSDL would specify whether SOAPAction is part of routing the request, which request uses the SubmitRequest element as its message body, etc. If you want to write a Java server to support literal encoding such as the payload above, I suggest you try Apache Axis (http://ws.apache.org/axis/) or a commercial product. Scott Nichol Do not send e-mail directly to this e-mail address, because it is filtered to accept only mail from specific mail lists.
