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Introduction to SOAP-Based Web

Services
Learn more about SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), a software design principle
and architectural design pattern meant to represent self-contained units.
by Mainak Goswami May. 20, 14 Integration Zone

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To learn more on web services lets first understand the concept of the service oriented architecture.

SOAP based Webservice

What is Service Oriented Architecture?
Service Oriented Architecture is a software design principle and architectural design pattern to represent
self contained unit of functionalities called service. SOA promotes design principles involving loose coupling,
reusablility and coarse grained services. In Enterprise Architecture terms SOA benefits by delivering agility and
reacting quickly to business needs, boosting return on investments by lowering the integration costs, reducing
development cost by reusing components. The Enterprise Aarchitects promote the use of Enterprise Service
Bus as an integration layer for large scale enterprise online applications.
E.g. A very good example will be Account Statement of your transactions, Product pricing information, image
processing service, Map service, location service etc.
What are Webservices?

Web Services are just a form of implementation of service oriented architecture which can communicate
between disparate systems in a platform independent manner.The service providers define an interface
described by the WSDL and messages are exchanged with the service consumers using SOAP messages. The
messages can be transmitted over HTTP, FTP or SMTP protocols.
Webservices can be of SOAP based or REST.
In todays step by step guide we will explore how to create a SOAP based web service and a consumer which will
consume the web service. We will use JAX-WS(Java API for XML Web Services) API for creating the web
service.

Software:
Weblogic Application Server 12c
Eclipse Oepe 12c
Weblogic Webservice Tool This will automatically create all the required code and WSDL files and let the
developers focus on the business logic.

Step 1:
In your Eclipse create a new Dynamic Web Project.

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