SOAP in Integration Engine

[Former Member]

Hi,

I got a basic doubt...XI uses SOAP message, is this is up to SOAP (1.1 or 1.2 ) specification by W3C or SAP's proprietary format of SOAP ? can we call SOAP message instead of XML message directly? is that technically correct ?

Thanks and Regards

Mahesh.

[Former Member]

thanks all for kind response

Regards

mahesh.

[Former Member]

hi,

Please go through this blogs it will be very helpful.

/people/james.guanzon/blog/2006/09/09/how-to-support-industry-standards-in-xi-part-iii-of-iii--config-test

Regard's

-Prabhakar.A

[Former Member]

Hi,

>>>><i>can we call SOAP message instead of XML message directly? is that technically correct ?</i>

I think it is technically incorrect. Becasue, SOAP is a XML based Protocol, meaning SOAP used XML Syntax to exchange messages accross various applications.

You can get more information on SOAP at http://www.w3schools.com

Cheers,

Ramesh P

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply Ramesh but my question was....do XI uses SOAP messages internally or XI message ? because there is difference between them ( up to my knowledge is concern ).

Thanks and Regards

Mahesh

[Former Member]

Hi Mahesh,

XI uses <b>XI Message Protocol</b> for Internal Communication.

The XI Message Protocol is based on XML and SOAP.

I think this link clear your doubts regarding this.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/b6/0b733cb7d61952e10000000a11405a/frameset.htm

Hope it is helpful

Cheers,

Ramesh P

[Former Member]

mahesh,

its SOAP 1.1...SAPs format...

also, Xi converts all the messages recd to it, in XML format...so all the processing in Xi is done in XML format.

u have soap adapter in Xi, whiuch wud call the web service, but the processing wud happen only in Xml..

regards,

Vishal