basic-soap-web-service

This is a basic SOAP web service project with Spring and Spring Boot.

It is a SOAP COARSE MANAGEMENT web service.

Web service

• Service delivered over the web
• Application-to-application interaction
• W3C definition: Software system designed to support interoperable (platform independent), machine-to-machine (application-to-application) interaction over a network (HTTP or queue)

SOAP Web Service

• It uses XML as the request exchange format.
• It poses restrictions on the format of the XML which is exchanged between the service provider and the service consumer.
• SOAP defines a specific XML request and response format: Envelope, Header, Body

Data Exchange Format

• SOAP XML Request
• SOAP XML Response

Transport

• SOAP over HTTP
• SOAP over MQ

Service Definition

• WSDL (Web Service Definition Language)

WSDL

• contract between the service provider and service consumer
• defines the endpoints, all operations, request and response structure

XSD

• XML Schema Definition
• Defines how request and response should look like, what kind of structure should they have, and what are the valid values for each of the elements inside the request.

JAXB

• Java API for XML Binding
• JAXB maven plugin will take the XSD and generate Java classes

SOAP web service client

• Wizdler Chrome plugin

Dependency

• spring-boot-starter-web-services
• spring-ws-core.jar