Using SOAP with iPlanet Application Server
iPlanet^TM Application Server Samples

These samples demonstrate how to deploy and use the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technology in conjunction with EJBs housed in the iPlanet Application Server.  The Apache SOAP implementation serves as the runtime container for SOAP v1.1 services deployed in iPlanet.

As described in the SOAP protocol submission to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),  "SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework."

SOAP is one of several XML-based technologies that form the underpinnings of the Sun^TM Open Net Environment (ONE), an open architecture for interoperable, smart web services.

  Follow these steps to install and deploy the Apache SOAP infrastructure and sample applications on iPlanet:

• Installing Apache SOAP describes how to install the Apache SOAP implementation in the iPlanet runtime. This section also describes how to deploy and exercise the sample applications bundled with the Apache SOAP implementation.

• iPlanet Application Server SOAP Sample Applications:
  
  
• Helloworld demonstrate access to a HelloWorld stateless session bean through a SOAP service.

 
• ShoppingCart demonstrates how state information can be maintained in a SOAP service while the SOAP service interacts with a stateful session bean.