Resources and References

This section covers resources and references for SOAP, WSDL, Apache Axis, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft SOAP Toolkit.

SOAP

Soap is a W3C Internet Standard.

Note: SSC supports SOAP version 1.1.

For more information, visit the W3C website: http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP

WSDL

WSDL is a W3C Internet Standard.

For more information, visit the W3C standards documents website: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl/

Apache Axis

Axis is a Java SOAP client which is maintained as part of the Apache open source project. It can be used as an alternative to the client library for SOAP access. Large data sets may cause memory issues.

For more information, visit the project website at: http://ws.apache.org/axis/

Microsoft Visual Studio .Net

The latest (.NET) versions of Microsoft Visual Studio allow easy integration of Web Services such as SSC.

For more information, visit the product website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

Microsoft SOAP Toolkit

For Windows applications written using older versions of Microsoft languages (Visual C++, Visual Basic) the SOAP toolkit provides SOAP access.

Note: This toolkit has now been deprecated by Microsoft.

Further information, visit the SOAP toolkit website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/soaptk/