Help in SOAP

[jai ganesh <ja...@timesgroup.com>]

Dear All,
            I want to invoke a SOAP service from another SOAP service.I
am not able to do it as I am getting the following error saying that
"XMLJavaMappingRegistry"
not done.
The idea is that a client invokes a service which just routes the
request to other services depending on the request.In this way the
amount of information that the client has to know is minimum and could
also be determined dynamically.For example,the client can first invoke a
method in the service which displays all the available services and then
the client can actually invoke one or more of them.
In this was the all new service implementations are tranparent to the
client as he down not have to change his code.

Namaskar

P.G.Jai Ganesh

Where does WSDL fit in ?

[Shahed A Moolji <sh...@enoor.com>]

Hi,

I am new to Soap, but have been watching it for almost a year.

Corret me if I am wrong, but is the following analogy correct ?

1. UDDI is somewhat similar to the Java RMI Registry
2. WSDL is something like CORBA's IDL, and the wsdl2java mapping is like
     the RMI client Stub.
3. The SOAP server is like an ORB
4. SOAP-RPC over HTTP is like IIOP

Now, I have been looking at apache soap, and I dont see  WSDL
anywhere.

I ran some java client to java server (Stock Quote) samples last year,
and I dont remember how the client knew what methods to execute on the
server,
return types etc. (I think they were hard coded ??)

Anyway, so without WSDL, how can a client know what is out there ?
How does Apache Soap work without WSDL ?

Thanks
Shahed