Calling a Web Service through HTTP Adapter

A Concept - Posted on 13 Oct. 2009 at 12 PM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Since web service is working on top of HTTP, so technically it's possible to call web service through HTTP adapter.

The problem arise is to convert the outgoing XML message in the HTTP body into SOAP-XML prior to sending the message over HTTP, and to convert it back from SOAP-XML into just XML format while receiving it from the partner system.

• To be precise, we need to add in the SOAP envelope into the message and put the original message into the SOAP body section prior to sending the message.
• And the same goes to receiving the message back, we need to trim down the SOAP envelope and extract out the XML from the SOAP body section of the message

How do we add in SOAP envelope when sending it out and remove it when receiving it back? One elegant way is to use XSLT to do these transformations.

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