Executing the client program sends the HTTP-SOAP stream to the server indicated by the program. We have asked the server to calculate a sum for us:
java webservice.CalculatorClient 6 + 5
The stream is made up of an HTTP Header, followed by a SOAP envelope.
HTTP Header:
POST /soap/servlet/rpcrouter HTTP/1.0 Host: localhost Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 463 SOAPAction: ""
SOAP envelope:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ envelope/"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:add xmlns:ns1="urn:Calculator" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle= "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <nbr1 xsi:type="xsd:long">6 <nbr2 xsi:type="xsd:long">5
The server receives the SOAP request and sends back the results of this addition:
HTTP Header
HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 451 Set-Cookie2: JSESSIONID=8qilh88em1;Version=1;Discard;Path="/soap" Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=8qilh88em1;Path=/soap Servlet-Engine: Tomcat Web Server/3.2.2 (JSP 1.1; Servlet 2.2;
Java 1.3.0; Windows 2000 5.0 x86; java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.)
SOAP envelope
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap /envelope/"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:addResponse xmlns:ns1="urn:Calculator" SOAP- ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ encoding/"> <return xsi:type="xsd:long">11
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