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taylor corey

Subject: Doc/Literal and SOAP Header/Body
Author: taylor corey
Date: 04 Jan 2008 12:57 PM

I was reading 'Building Web Services with Java' and the book seems to indicate that if the WSDL file indicates Doc/Literal then the parameters should go in the SOAP body and not the header. In fact, it says the SOAP header should be empty.

Is this generally accepted practice?

Thanks.

--tc

(Deleted User)

Subject: Doc/Literal and SOAP Header/Body
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 07 Jan 2008 03:26 AM

Hi Taylor,
the SOAP header should be used to carry only application-specific informations, and not data. Data needed to perform the web service operation should only be located in the SOAP body; the header should be used to specify authentication tokens, or transaction semantics.
The web server could either use those informations or discard them (unless the "soap:mustUnderstand" attribute is specified).

Hope this helps,
Alberto

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