Oracle SOAP Release Notes

Features

1. server-side infrastructure for managing and running SOAP enabled services
2. Java client API for invoking SOAP services
3. supports pluggable XML parser
• requires XML parser that supports JAXP and DOM2 API (supported parser is distributed as xmlparserv2-soap.jar)
4. supports pluggable providers that enable extensible support for different types of services.  This release includes:
• Java provider supports SOAP services that are Java classes
5. supports RPC invocation over HTTP transport
6. Security features include:
• HTTP plus basic authentication, proxy, and proxy basic authentication
• HTTPS levels 1-3 plus basic authentication, proxy, and proxy basic authentication
7. Supports these encoding styles:
• SOAP v1.1 Encoding provides built-in support for encoding/decoding primitive types (boolean, double, float, long, int, short, byte), Strings, arbitrary JavaBeans (using reflection) and Vectors, Enumerations, Hashtables, or 1-dimensional arrays of these types. For other types user can hand-write encoder/decoder and register with the runtime.
• Literal XML encoding allows one to send XML elements (DOM org.w3c.dom.Element objects) as parameters by embedding the literal XML serialization of the DOM tree. No code needs to be written to support this (see the addressbook demo to see a sample use of it).  This encoding style is supported for Java services only.
8. SOAP servlet is configurable via an XML configuration file
9. auditing of SOAP requests and responses
10. pluggable handlers can be configured to run globally as part of a response chain, request chain, or error chain
11. pluggable provider manager (release includes file-based manager of deployed providers)
12. pluggable service manager (release includes file-base manager of deployed services)
13. pluggable logger (release includes servlet logger and stdout logger)
14. SOAP servlet runs in a servlet engine that supports Java Servlet Specification v2.0 (JServ)

Requirements

1. JDK 1.1.8 or 1.2

Limitations

• encodingStyle attribute must have only one encoding style given (see section 4.1.1 of the spec)
• mustUnderstand attribute
• root attribute
• actor attribute and SOAP intermediaries
• ID/href links and multi-ref accessors

Documentation and additional resources:

 Oracle SOAP API Javadoc

 SOAP v1.1 Specification

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).  SOAP is provided "AS IS."