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- SAAJ: No strings attached by Frank Sommers - [Clicks: 96]
Developers rightly criticize SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) for being overly complex. At heart, however, SOAP is only an XML message format, and its complexity relates more with how we put SOAP to use. In its simplest form, SOAP can exchange structured messages between a Web service and its clients. Since SOAP messages are not limited to XML data and can also include binary content, sending and receiving SOAP messages represents a simple way to exchange information across the Web. In his latest Web Services column, Frank Sommers shows how the SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) 1.2 supports creating, parsing, and sending SOAP messages with binary content.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0912-webservices.html - Sep, 2003
