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This article takes you through the some of basic concepts involved in SAAJ Messaging. The goal of this tutorial is to give a brief overview about the terminology involved with SOAP (or SAAJ) messages.
We will also develop a basic SAAJ client that accesses a deployed web service by sending SOAP messages. By using SAAJ we will working at XML level of messages which means that we need to create SOAP request messages and parse the SOAP response messages for results.
To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.
The steps that we follow in due course of the tutorial are:
SAAJ stands for SOAP with Attachments API for Java. SAAJ messages follow the SOAP standards, which prescribe the format for messages. With SAAJ API one can create XML messages that conform to SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 specification by simple making Java API calls.
The two main types of SOAP messages are those that have attachments and those that do not.Messages sent using the SAAJ API are called request-response messages
The following outline shows the very high-level structure of a SOAP message.
All SOAP messages are sent and received over a connection. With the SAAJ API, the connection is represented by a SOAPConnection object, which goes from the sender directly to its destination. They are sent over a SOAPConnection object with the call method, which sends a message (a request) and then blocks until it receives the reply (a response).
The SAAJ client that we are going to develop is targeted towards the web service that we deployed in the Developing a JAX-WS POJO Web Service. Although this model will work any web service if we change the request message according to the WSDL file of deployed service.
This concludes the development section of our web based client.
This completes our development and deployment of a basic SAAJ client that works at XML level by sending SOAP request messages to the deployed Web Service.
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