Doubts about SOAP

[Alejandra Cantu de Lopez <lo...@home.com>]

Hi, I am new to SOAP, and I have been looking at the technology and seems to be what I am looking for to implement the distributed content and information aggregator for my company.

But I have some questions about the deployment, maybe somebody would be so kind to take some time to explain how it works.

When you deploy a service via SOAP, are you serializing the class to the deployment destination in order to be able to instantiate the class even if the class hasn't been physically placed on the destination server?

If so, how does SOAP handles the dependencies of the class? Are the dependencies serialized to?

I have seen some messages talking about deploying the rpcrouter, what does that mean?

Do you have to provide an implementation of a Serializer and Deserializer to be able to serialize the Class implementing your service?

Hopefully somebody would help me.

Thanks in advance.

Alex Lopez