Madan Mohan

This article takes a look at SOAP Message handlers and how JAX-RPC supports SOAP Message handlers and its usage scenarios. First, some of the terminology: a SOAP Interceptor takes raw SOAP message as input and, before processing the message, modifies the SOAP message or adds some additional information to it, and then returns the SOAP message as output. A SOAP Message handler is a mechanism that intercepts the SOAP messages at the client level as well as at the server level. SOAP Intermediary intercepts the SOAP message between the client and server. SOAP Header processors deal mainly with the header part of the SOAP payload. A SOAP Header typically contains authentication information, a transaction ID, a digital signature, or some routing information. SOAP Message Hand... (more)