Interoperability with Other Messaging Applications

A very critical feature of the Web service architecture is that the components of a Web service are often developed and hosted on heterogeneous environments. Yet they are capable of communication with each other because of the following:

  • A packaging model that is independent of the transport mechanism.

  • An agreement between communicating parties about the use of SOAP header structures, manifest, and so on.

Both rules are adhered to by the JAXM specification to ensure that interoperability is maintained.

JAXM providers implement their transport bindings in accordance with the SOAP 1.1 specification. This implies that they support SOAP 1.1 bindings for the HTTP protocol. Additionally, JAXM providers ...

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