Web Services for the JEE Professional
WebLogic Server has two ways to create and to consume Web services. Each approach is targeted at a different developer audience. For the J2EE professional developer, WebLogic Server provides an intuitive way to expose J2EE components as Web services. For developers who are not comfortable with the complexity of the J2EE programming model, a new IDE and framework, named WebLogic Workshop, provides a higher level of programming abstraction that shields the developer from the complexities of J2EE...
Instance and Schema
Because software domains traditionally have defined their own data types and structures, application programmers wishing to interoperate across software domains have had to format data according to the requirements of each specific software domain and to write programs to convert data from one domain format to the other. With XML, however, programmers can use a rich library of XML tools to transform the data from native formats to XML and back again. XML can be used as an independent data type...
SOAP Multipart MIME Attachments
The SOAP with Attachments specification is accepted as a note at W3C, adopted by the ebXML and RosettaNet consortia, and under consideration at the XML Protocols Working Group. This specification solves the problem of sending binary data or entire XML documents. Without the SOAP with Attachments specification, the processor has to uuencode or base64 binary data, which adds a lot of overhead. SOAP with Attachments allows the SOAP message to be sent within a MIME envelope, with attachments linked...