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- | Doc for 0.91</div><div class="xright"></div><div class="clear"><hr></hr></div></div><div id="leftColumn"><div id="navcolumn"><div id="menuAxis_2_0"><h5>Axis 2.0</h5><ul><li class="none"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li class="expanded"><a href="">Download Axis2</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="download.cgi">Releases</a></li><li class="none"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/webservices/axis2/trunk/?root=Apache-SVN" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Source Code</a></li><li class="none"><a href="axis2tools.html">Tools</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="">Getting Started with Axis2</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="installationguide.html">Installation Guide</a></li><li class="none"><a href="userguide.html">User Guide</a></li><li class="none"><a href="webadminguide.html">Web Administration Guide</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="docs.html">Additional Reference</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis2" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Axis2 Wiki</a></li><li class="none"><a href="Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html">Architecture Guide</a></li><li class="none"><a href="OMTutorial.html">AXIOM Tutorial</a></li><li class="none"><a href="CodegenToolReference.html">Code Generation Tutorial</a></li><li class="none"><a href="rest-ws.html">REST Support</a></li><li class="none"><a href="mtom-guide.html">Handling Binary Data with Axis2</a></li><li class="none"><a href="axis2config.html">Axis2 Configuration Guide</a></li><li class="none"><a href="migration.html">Migrating from Axis 1.x</a></li><li class="none"><a href="api/index.html">Online Java Docs</a></li><li class="none"><a href="otherTutorials.html">Other Tutorials</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="overview.html">Get Invloved</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="svn.html">Checkout the Source</a></li><li class="none"><a href="siteHowTo.html">Build the Site</a></li><li class="none"><a href="guidelines.html">Developer Guidelines</a></li><li class="none"><a href="refLib.html">Reference Library</a></li><li class="none"><a href="mail-lists.html">Mailing Lists</a></li><li class="none"><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="">Project Information</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="mail-lists.html">Mailing Lists</a></li><li class="none"><a href="team-list.html">Project Team</a></li><li class="none"><a href="issue-tracking.html">Issue Tracking</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><a href="http://maven.apache.org/" title="Built by Maven" id="poweredBy"><img alt="Built by Maven" src="./images/logos/maven-button-1.png"></img></a></div></div><div id="bodyColumn"><div class="contentBox"><div class="section"><a name="Axis2_Architecture_Guide"></a><h2>Axis2 Architecture Guide</h2><div class="subsection"><a name="The_Big_Picture"></a><h3>The Big Picture</h3><p>Any architecture is a result of what that architecture should yield, the success of an architecture should be evaluated bases on the requirements the architecture should meet. Let us start our journey in to Axis2 looking at the requirements that are expected from Axis2.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Requirement_of_Axis2"></a><h3>Requirement of Axis2</h3><p>In the SOAP terminology, a participant who is taking part in a Web Service interaction is known as a SOAP Node. Delivery of a single SOAP Message is defined based on two participants, SOAP Sender and SOAP Receiver. Each SOAP Message is sent by SOAP Sender and received by SOAP Receiver, and single SOAP delivery is the most basic unit that builds the Web Service interactions.</p><p>Each SOAP Node may be written in specific programming language, may it be Java, C++, .NET or Perl, the Web Services allow them to inter operate. This is possible because at the wire each Web Service interaction is done via SOAP, which is common to every SOAP Node. </p><img src="images/archi-guide/soap.gif" width="691" height="319" border="0" alt=""></img><p>
- Web Service middleware handles the complexity SOAP messaging and let the users to work with the programming language they are accustomed to. Axis2 allows the java users to invoke the Web Services using java representations and handles the SOAP messaging behind the curtain.
- </p><p>
- Axis2 handles SOAP processing, along with numerous other functionalities that make the life of the Web Service developer convenient. Following are the identified requirements:
- </p><ol><li>Provide a framework to process the SOAP messages, the framework should be extensible and the users should be able to extend the SOAP processing per service or operation basis. Furthermore it should be able to model different Message Exchange Patterns using the processing framework.</li>
- <li>
- Ability to deploy the Web Services (with or without WSDL)
- </li>
- <li>Provide a Client API that can be used to invoke the Web Services, the API should supports both the Synchronous and Asynchronous programming models.</li>
- <li>Ability to configure Axis2 and it's components via the deployment</li>
- <li>Ability to send and receive SOAP messages with different transports</li></ol><p>
- Apart from the above functionalities, performance, both in the terms of memory and speed, is a major consideration for Axis2.
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- <br></br>
- Axis2 Core Architecture is built on the three specifications, WSDL, SOAP and WS-Addressing. Other specifications like JAX-RPC and SAAJ etc are layered on top of the Core Architecture. The WS-Policy might join the core specifications in the near future.
- </p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Axis2__the_Architecture"></a><h3>Axis2, the Architecture</h3><p>
- Now having look at the requirements of the Axis2 we can direct our attention to the Architecture.
- </p><p>
- Axis2 architecture lay out few Principals to preserve the uniformity of the architecture, they are as follows.
- </p><ul>
-<li>Axis2 Architecture separates the logic and the states, the code that process the logic is usually stateless. This allows the code to be executed freely by the parallel threads.</li>
-<li>All the information is kept in a one Information model, this allows the system to be stored and resumed</li>
-</ul><p>
- Axis2 architecture is modular, the architecture broke the Axis2 in to Seven modules.
- </p><ol><li>Information Model</li>
-<li>XML processing Model</li>
-<li>SOAP Processing Model</li>
-<li>Deployment </li>
-<li>WSDL and Code Generation</li>
-<li>Client API</li>
-<li>Transports</li>
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-</ol><img src="images/archi-guide/all.png" width="426" height="189" border="0" alt=""></img><p>
- Let us look in to the rationale for each Module, and what each does?
- </p><p>Axis2 defines a model to handle the information and all the states are kept in this model. The model has a hierarchy for the information and the system manages the life cycle of the objects in this hierarchy. </p><p>
- Handling the SOAP Message is the most important and the most complex task, the efficiency of this is the single most important factor that decides the performance. It make sense to delegate this task to a separate module, and that module, AXIOM provide a simple API for SOAP and XML info-set and while hiding the complexities of the efficient XML processing with in the implementation.
- </p><p>
- SOAP Processing Model controls the execution of the processing, the Model defines different phases the execution would walk though, and the user can extend the Processing Model at some specific places.
- </p><p>Axis2 define a transport framework that enable user to use different transports, the transports match in to the specific places in the SOAP processing model. The implementation provide few common transports and user may write new ones if he wishes. </p><p>
- Axis2 deployment model allows the user to deploy services, configure the transports, extend the SOAP Processing model per system basis, per service basis, and per operation basis.
- </p><p>Finally Axis2 provides a code generation tool that will generate server side and client side code along a test case. The generated code would simplify the service deployment and the service invocation. This would make the Axis2 easier to use. </p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Information_Model"></a><h3>Information Model</h3><p>Information Model has two main hierarchies, the Contexts and Descriptions. </p><img src="images/archi-guide/contexts.png" width="438" height="307" border="0" alt=""></img><p>The arrow A-> B means B include A and if letters are 1,1 then B includes one A and letters are 1,M then B includes one or more A.</p><p>
- The two hierarchies are connected as shown in the above figure. The Description hierarchy represents more data that exists through out the lifetime of the Axis2. Examples for such data would be deployed Web Services, operations, etc. On the other hand, the context hierarchy holds more dynamic information about things that has more than one instances (e.g.Message Context).
- </p><p>These two hierarchies created a model that provides the ability to search
-for key value pairs, when the
-values are searched at a given level, they are searched while moving up
-in the level until a match is found. In the resulting model the lower
-levels overrides the values in the upper levels. For and example when a
-value is looked up at the Message Context and it is not found, it would
-be looked up at the Operation Context etc, up the hierarchy. The Search
-is first done up the hierarchy, and if starting point is a Context then
-it is search in the Description hierarchy as well.</p><p>This allows user to declare and override values, and result in very
- flexible configuration model. The flexibility could be the Achilles heel for the system, as
-the search, specially for something that does not exists is expensive,
-yet the in the final analysis developers believe that the flexibility
-would serve better in this instants and opt for the flexibility. </p><table class="bodyTable"><tr class="b"><td>Configuration
-Context</td><td>Holds the current state of execution, deep copy of this would essentially make a copy of the Axis.</td><td>Axis
-Configuration
-</td><td>
- Holds the all global configurations. Transports, global modules and parameters and Services.
- </td></tr><tr class="a"><td>Service Context</td><td>Life cycle of this in not clearly defined. has leave as a future extension point,</td><td>Service
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-</td><td>Holds the information about the current MEP instance, maintain the Messages in the current MEP etc.</td><td>Operation
-Description</td><td>Holds the operation level configurations</td></tr><tr class="a"><td><a name="messageContext">Message
-Context</a></td><td>
- Holds all the information about the current Message that being executed.
- </td><td>Message
-Description</td><td>Do not hold any information as yet, but can be used as future extension point.</td></tr></table></div><div class="subsection"><a name="XML_Processing_Model"></a><h3>XML Processing Model</h3><p>Please refer to the <a href="OMTutorial.html">OM Tutorial</a></p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="SOAP_Processing_Model"></a><h3>SOAP Processing Model</h3><p>
- <img src="images/archi-guide/soap-processing.gif" width="755" height="348" border="0" alt=""></img></p><p>
- The architecture identified two basic actions a SOAP processor should perform, sending and receiving SOAP messages. The architecture provides two Pipes (also named 'Flows'), to perform these two basic actions. Axis Engine or the driver of Axis2 defines two methods send() and receive() to implement these two Pipes. The two pipes are named <i>In Pipe</i> and <i>Out Pipe</i>, the complex Message Exchange Patterns are constructed by combining these two pipes.</p><p>Extensibility of the SOAP processing model is provided through the Handlers. When a SOAP message is being processed the Handlers that are registered would be executed. The Handlers can be registered in global, service, or operation scopes and the final handler chain is calculated combining the Handlers from all the scopes.</p><p>The Handlers act as interceptors and they process the parts of the SOAP message and provide add on services.
-Usually Handlers work on the SOAP Headers yet they may access or change the SOAP Body as well.</p><p>When a SOAP message is send from the Client API, a <i><i>Out Pipe</i></i> would begin, the <i><i>Out Pipe</i></i> invokes the Handlers and ends with a Transport Sender that sends the SOAP message to the target endpoint. The SOAP message is received by a Transport Receiver at the target endpoint, which reads the SOAP message and starts the <i><i>In Pipe</i></i>. The In Pipe consists of Handlers and ends with a <a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a>, which consumes the SOAP message.</p><p>
- Above explained processing happens for each and every SOAP message exchanged. Processing that follows may decide to give birth for the other SOAP messages, in which case the more complex patterns emerge. But Axis2 always view the SOAP message in terms of processing of a single message where as the combination of the messages are layered on top of that basic framework.
- </p><p>The two pipes does not differentiate between the Server and the Client, the SOAP Processing Model handles the complexity and provides two abstract pipes to the user. Each pipe is a set of Handlers, the different areas of the pipes are given names, and according to the Axis2 slang those are named 'Phases'. A Handler always runs inside a Phase, and the Phase provides a mechanism to specify the ordering of Handlers. Both Pipes has built in Phases, and both define the areas for 'User Phases' which can be defined by the user.</p><p>Following figure shows the two pipes with their pre-defined Phases, the user defined Phases would be fit in to the User Phases.</p><img src="images/archi-guide/phases.png" width="525" height="226" border="0" alt=""></img></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Axis2_Default_Processing_Model"></a><h3>Axis2 Default Processing Model</h3><p>Axis2 has the, some inbuilt Handlers that run in inbuilt Phases and they create the default configuration for the Axis2, we will be looking more in to how to extend the default processing Model in the next section. </p><p>There are four special handlers defined in Axis2.</p><ol>
-<li>Dispatchers - Find the Service the SOAP message is directed to, always run on the In-Pipe and inside the Dispatch Phase. There is a inbuilt Dispatcher, that run in any case and user may override it by placing the dispatchers before the inbuilt Dispatcher.</li>
-<li><a name="mr"> Message Receiver</a> - Consume the SOAP Message and run on the Message Processing Phase in the inflow</li>
-<li>Transport Sender - Send the SOAP message to the SOAP endpoint the message is destined to. Always runs on the</li>
-</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Processing_an_Incoming_SOAP_Message"></a><h3>Processing an Incoming SOAP Message</h3><p>Incoming SOAP Message is always received by a Transport Receiver waiting for the SOAP Messages, once the SOAP Message is arrived the transport Headers are parsed and a <a href="#messageContext">Message Context</a> is created for the incoming SOAP Message. The the <i><i>In Pipe</i></i> is executed with the Message Context. Let us see what would happen at the each Phase of the execution, this process my happen in either in the server or the Client, there is a special case of using the two way transport where the first four phases in the In-Phase most likely to do nothing.</p><ol>
-<li>Transport Phase - The Handlers in the transport Phase are taken from the transport configuration associated, they are executed according to the Phase rules. </li>
-<li>Pre-Dispatch Phase- The Handlers that goes there must be engaged globally (for all services) as the Service does not known at this point. The best example for them would be, Addressing Handlers and may be security Handlers if the Addressing Headers are encrypted.</li>
-<li>Dispatch Phase - The Dispatchers are run in this Phases and find the Service if the service is not found already.</li>
-<li>Post-Dispatch Phase - This phase check weather the service is found, if the service has not found by this point the execution will halt and send a "service not found error".
-Policy Determination Phase - This Phase does nothing for the time being, this is placed for the implementing the Policy</li>
-<li>User Defined Phases - User defined Phases are executed here.</li>
-<li>Message Validation Phase - Once the user level execution is taken place, this Phase will validates has the SOAP Message Processing has taken place correctly. For an example the must understand processing would happen here.
-</li>
-<li>Message Processing Phase - The Business logic of the SOAP message, executed here, the a <a href="#mr"> Message Receiver</a> is registered with a each Operation. The Message receiver associated with the each operation would be executed as the last Handler of this Phase.
-</li>
-</ol><p>There may be other handlers in the any of the these Phases, users may employ custom Handlers to override the mechanics in the each of these Phases. If there is a response message, that would be initiated by the <a href="#mr"> Message Receiver</a>, yet the architecture is not aware of the response message and merely invoke the <a href="#mr"> Message Receiver</a>.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Processing_of_the_Outgoing_Message"></a><h3>Processing of the Outgoing Message</h3><p>Out pipe is simpler because the Service and the Operation to dispatch is known by the time the pipe is executed. The Out pipe may be initiated by the <a href="#mr"> Message Receiver</a> or the Client API implementation. </p><ol><li>Message Initialize Phase - Fist Phase of the out pipe, this serves as the placeholder for the custom Handlers</li>
-<li>Policy Determination Phase - Just like in the in-pipe this is not implemented and suppose to serve as a extension point</li>
-<li>User Phases - This executes Handlers in user define Phases</li>
-<li>Transports Phase - Execute any transport Handlers taken from the associated transport configuration and the last handler would be a transport Sender which would send the SOAP message to the target end point</li>
-</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Extending_SOAP_Processing_Model"></a><h3>Extending SOAP Processing Model</h3><p>We discussed the default processing model of the Axis2, ability to extend the model has been the whole point of spending the energy on the SOAP processing model. We shall discuss the extension mechanism for the SOAP processing model now.</p><p>Idea behind making each step of the SOAP processing in terms of Handlers (inbuilt ones we discuss earlier) and placing them in the Phases is to allow Handlers to be placed between those Handlers and to override or affect the default mechanics. There are two ways the to extend the SOAP Processing Model.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Extending_the_SOAP_Processing_Model_with_Handlers"></a><h3>Extending the SOAP Processing Model with Handlers</h3><p>The Handlers can specify the Phase they need to be run, further more they can specify the there location inside a phase via the following information.</p><ol>
-<li>Handler should run as the first in the phases</li>
-<li>Handler should run as the last in the Phases</li>
-<li>Handler should run before a given Handlers</li>
-<li>Handler should run after a Given Handler </li>
-</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Extending_the_SOAP_Processing_Model_with_Modules"></a><h3>Extending the SOAP Processing Model with Modules</h3><p>SOAP processing Model defines a
-logical entity called a module that encapsulates two entities, Handlers and Web Service Operations.
-The Handlers will act in the same way as explained in the first method.</p><p>Apart from the extension mechanism based on the Handlers, the WS-*
-specifications suggest a requirement for add new Operations using modules. For an example once a
-user add a Reliable Messaging capability to a Service, the "Create
-Sequence" operation needs to be available to the service end point.
-This can be implemented by letting the Modules define the operations and
-once the module is engaged to a service the operations will be added to
-that service. </p><p>A service, operations or the system may engage
-a module, once the module is engaged the handlers and the operations
-defined in the module are added to the entity that engages them.
-Modules can not be added while the Axis2 is running but rater it ll be available once the system is restarted.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Deployment"></a><h3>Deployment</h3><p>There deployment Model provides a concrete mechanism to configure Axis2. Deployment Model has four entities that provide the configuration. </p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="The__file"></a><h3>The file</h3><p>This file holds the global configuration for the client and server, and provide following information.</p><ol>
-<li>The global parameters</li>
-<li>Registered transports in and transport outs </li>
-<li>User defined Phase names</li>
-<li>Modules that are engaged globally</li>
-<li>Globally defines <a href="#mr"> Message Receiver</a>s</li>
-</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Service_Archive"></a><h3>Service Archive</h3><p>Service archive must have a <em>META-INF/service.xml</em> file and may contain the dependent classes. the <em>service.xml</em> file has following information.</p><ol><li>Service level parameters</li>
-<li>Modules that are engaged Service level</li>
-<li>Operations inside the Service</li></ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Module_Archive"></a><h3>Module Archive</h3><p>Module archive must have a <em>META-INF/module.xml</em> file and dependent classes the <em>module.xml</em> file has Module parameters and the Operations defined in the module.</p><p>When the system started up the Axis2 ask the deployment model to create a Axis Configuration, the Deployment Model first find a <em>axis2.xml</em> file and build the global configuration. Then the Deployment check for the Module archives and then for the service archives, the corresponding services and Modules are added to the Axis Configuration. System will build Contexts on top of the Axis Configurations and the Axis2 is ready to send or receive the SOAP Message. The Hot deployment is allowed only for the Service and in that case a thread will check the repository repeatedly, and add the Service corresponds to the new found Service archives to the repository.
- </p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="WSDL_and_code_generation"></a><h3>WSDL and code generation</h3><p>Although the basic objective of the code generation tool has not changed, the Code
-generation module of Axis2 has taken a different approach to generate code.
-Primarily the change is in the use of templates, namely XSL templates which
-gives the code generator the flexibility to generate code in multiple
-languages. </p><p>The basic approach is to set the code generator to generate an XML and parse
-it with a template to generate the code file. The following figure shows how
-this shows up in the architecture of the tool.</p><p><img border="0" src="images/archi-guide/CodegenArchitecture.jpg" width="478" height="218" alt=""></img></p><p>The fact here is that it is the same information that is extracted from the
-WSDL no matter what code is generated. Code generator uses the WOM (WSDL Object
-Model) internally to manipulate the WSDL and passes that information to the
-emitter which emits an XML. the XML is then parsed with the relevant XSL to
-generate the code. No matter what the language, the process is the same except
-for the template that is being used</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Data_Binding"></a><h3>Data Binding</h3></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Integration_with_the_code_generation_engine"></a><h3>Integration with the code generation engine</h3><p>Axis2 M2 was released with code generation support but without data binding. The version 0.9 was shipped with data binding support with complete schema support. Such claim is made possible because of the fact that the data binding tool, xml-beans, has the full schema support. The original architecture of the code generation framework did not undergo significant changes because of the way that the code generation framework was originally designed. Data binding was incorporated as a pluggable extension to the code generation engine. Version 0.91 did not does not support SOAP encoding. It only supports RPC literal or document literal massages.</p><p><img border="0" src="images/codegen.gif" alt=""></img></p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Serialization_and_Dezerialization"></a><h3>Serialization and Dezerialization</h3><p>Xml-beans supports StAX API and AXIOM is based on a StAX API. Data binding in Axis2 is achieved through interfacing the AXIOM with the Xml-beans using the StAX API which is supported by both parties. At the time of the code generation there will be supporter classes for each WSDL operation that will have the utility methods that can deserialize the from AXIOM to data bound object and serialize from data bound object to AXIOM. For example if the WSDL has an operation called "echoString", once the code is generated there will be an echoStringDatabindingSupporter.java class generated that will have methods that will look like the following.</p><p>public static org.apache.axis2.om.OMElement toOM(org.soapinterop.xsd.EchoStringParamDocument param) : This method will handle the serialization.</p><p>public static org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject fromOM(org.apache.axis2.om.OMElement param, java.lang.Class type) : This method will handle the deserialization.</p><p>public static org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject getTestObject(java.lang.Class type) : This will be a utility method that can be used to create sample objects of the given data bound object.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Client_API"></a><h3>Client API</h3><p>There are three parameters that decide the nature of the Web Service interaction.</p><ol>
-<li>Message Exchange Pattern</li>
-<li>The Behavior of the transport. Does it act one-way or two way</li>
-<li>Synchronous/ Asynchronous behavior of the Client API</li>
-</ol><p>Variations of the three parameters can result in indefinite
-number of scenarios, even though Axis2 is built on a core that support
-any messaging interaction, the developers were compelled to support only
-two most widely used Message Exchange Patterns.</p><p>Two supported transports are One-Way and the Request-Response scenarios in the
- Client API, the implementation is based on a class called <code>MEPClient</code> and there are extensions for each Message Exchange Pattern that Axis2 Client API supports.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="One_Way_Messaging_Support"></a><h3>One Way Messaging Support</h3><p>The One-Way support is provided by the <code>InOnlyMEPClient</code> and Axis2 provides a class called <code>Call</code> that provides a much simpler interface for the user. The Axis2 supports HTTP/SMTP and TCP transports, in the case of the HTTP transport the return channel is not used and the HTTP 202 OK is returned in the return Channel.
- </p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Request_Response_Messaging_Support"></a><h3>Request Response Messaging Support</h3><p>The Request-Response support is provided by the <code>InOutMEPClient</code> and Axis2 provides a class called <code>MessageSender</code> that provides a much simpler interface for the user. The Client API has four ways to configure a given Message Exchange</p><ol>
- <li>Blocking or Non-Blocking nature - this can be decided by using <code>invokeBlocking()</code> or <code>invokeNonBlocking()</code> methods</li>
- <li>Sender transport - transport use to send the SOAP Message</li>
- <li>Listener transport - transport the Response is received</li>
- <li>Use Separate Channel - does the response is send over a separate transport connection or not, this can be false only when sender an listener transport is same and is a two way transport.</li>
- </ol><p>Depend on the values for the above four parameter, Axis2 behave differently</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Transports"></a><h3>Transports</h3><p>Axis2 has two basic constructs for transports, named as Transport In Configuration and Transport Out Configuration. The <a href="#messageContext">Message Context</a> has two fields to put the input and the out put transport to be used.
-Axis behaves according to the transport that is specified in each of the fields.
-</p><p>SOAP Message is arrived at the Server side, the incoming transport is decided by the Transport Listener that accepts the incoming SOAP Message. The transports for the subsequent SOAP Messages that are related to the first message, are decided based on the addressing parameters.</p><p>At the Client Side the user is free to specify the transport to be used, as in the Server side the transport for the subsequent SOAP Messages are decided by the addressing.</p><p>
-There Transport In Configuration and the Transport Out Configuration contains following information.
-
-</p><ol>
-<li>Transport Sender in Out Configuration, Transport Listener in the TransportIn Configuration</li>
-<li>Parameters of the transport</li>
-<li>Transport Handlers</li>
-</ol><p>Transport Sender send the SOAP Message over a given transport, each and every transport Out Configuration should define a transport Sender that send the transport. </p><p>Transport Receiver waits for the SOAP Messages and for each SOAP Message that arrives, uses the <l><i>In Pipe</i> to process the SOAP Message.</l></p><p>Axis2 Presently support the following transports</p><ol><li>HTTP - The HTTP transport, the transport Listener is a Servelet or a Simple HTTP server provided by Axis2. The transport Sender uses sockets to connect and send the SOAP Message. Currently we have the commons-HTTP-client based HTTP Transport sender as the default transport</li>
-<li>TCP - This is the most simplest transport, but needed the addressing support to be functional. </li>
-<li>SMTP - This work off a single email account, Transport Receiver is a tread that checks for emails in fixed time intervals.</li>
+ Last published: 26 September 2005
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+ <li><p><a href="#bmBP">The Big Picture</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmInfoMod">Information Model</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmXML">XML Processing Model</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmSOAPPM">SOAP Processing Model</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmDeployment">Deployment</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmWSDL">WSDL and code generation</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmDB">Data Binding</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmClientAPI">Client API</a></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p><a href="#bmTransports">Transports</a></p>
+ </li>
+</ul><p><br></br>
+<br></br>
+</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="The_Big_Picture"></a><h3>The Big Picture</h3><p>Any architecture is a result of what that architecture should yield, the
+success of an architecture should be evaluated bases on the requirements the
+architecture should meet. Let us start our journey in to Axis2 looking at the
+requirements that are expected from Axis2.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Requirement_of_Axis2"></a><h3>Requirement of Axis2</h3><p>In the SOAP terminology, a participant who is taking part in a Web Service
+interaction is known as a SOAP Node. Delivery of a single SOAP Message is
+defined based on two participants, SOAP Sender and SOAP Receiver. Each SOAP
+Message is sent by SOAP Sender and received by SOAP Receiver, and single SOAP
+delivery is the most basic unit that builds the Web Service interactions.</p><p>Each SOAP Node may be written in specific programming language, may it be
+Java, C++, .NET or Perl, the Web Services allow them to inter operate. This
+is possible because at the wire each Web Service interaction is done via
+SOAP, which is common to every SOAP Node.</p><p><img src="images/archi-guide/soap.gif" name="Graphic1" align="bottom" width="691" height="319" border="0" alt=""></img></p><p>Web Service middleware handles the complexity SOAP messaging and let the
+users to work with the programming language they are accustomed to. Axis2
+allows the java users to invoke the Web Services using java representations
+and handles the SOAP messaging behind the curtain.</p><p>Axis2 handles SOAP processing, along with numerous other functionalities
+that make the life of the Web Service developer convenient. Following are the
+identified requirements:</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Provide a framework to process the SOAP
+ messages, the framework should be extensible and the users should be able
+ to extend the SOAP processing per service or operation basis. Furthermore
+ it should be able to model different Message Exchange Patterns using the
+ processing framework.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Ability to deploy the Web Services (with
+ or without WSDL)</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Provide a Client API that can be used to
+ invoke Web Services, the API should supports both the Synchronous and
+ Asynchronous programming models.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Ability to configure Axis2 and it's
+ components via the deployment</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Ability to send and receive SOAP messages with different
+ transports</p>
+ </li>
+</ol><p>Apart from the above functionalities, performance, both in the terms of
+memory and speed, is a major consideration for Axis2. Axis2 Core Architecture
+is built on three specifications, WSDL, SOAP and WS-Addressing. Other
+specifications like JAX-RPC and SAAJ are layered on top of the Core
+Architecture. The WS-Policy might join the core specifications in the near
+future.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Axis2__the_Architecture"></a><h3>Axis2, the Architecture</h3><p>Now having look at the requirements of the Axis2 we can direct our
+attention to the Architecture.</p><p>Axis2 architecture lay out few Principals to preserve the uniformity of
+the architecture, they are as follows.</p><ul>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Axis2 Architecture separates the logic
+ and the states, the code that process the logic is usually stateless.
+ This allows the code to be executed freely by parallel threads.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>All the information is kept in a one Information model, this allows
+ the system to be stored and resumed</p>
+ </li>
+</ul><p>Axis2 architecture is modular, the architecture broke the Axis2 in to
+Seven modules.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Information Model</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">XML processing Model</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">SOAP Processing Model</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Deployment</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">WSDL and Code Generation</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Client API</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Transports</p>
+ </li>
+</ol><p><img src="images/archi-guide/all.png" name="Graphic2" align="bottom" width="426" height="189" border="0" alt=""></img></p><p>Let us look in to the rationale for each Module, and what each does?</p><p>Axis2 defines a model to handle the information and all the states are
+kept in this model. The model has a hierarchy for the information and the
+system manages the life cycle of the objects in this hierarchy.</p><p>Handling the SOAP Message is the most important and the most complex task,
+the efficiency of this is the single most important factor that decides the
+performance. It make sense to delegate this task to a separate module, and
+that module, AXIOM provide a simple API for SOAP and XML info-set and while
+hiding the complexities of the efficient XML processing with in the
+implementation.</p><p>SOAP Processing Model controls the execution of the processing, the Model
+defines different phases the execution would walk though, and the user can
+extend the Processing Model at some specific places.</p><p>Axis2 define a transport framework that enables user to use different
+transports, the transports match in to the specific places in the SOAP
+processing model. The implementation provide few common transports and user
+may write new ones if he wishes.</p><p>Axis2 deployment model allows the user to deploy services, configure the
+transports, extend the SOAP Processing model per system basis, per service
+basis, and per operation basis.</p><p>Finally Axis2 provides a code generation tool that will generate server
+side and client side code along a test case. The generated code would
+simplify the service deployment and the service invocation. This would make
+the Axis2 easier to use.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Information_Model"></a><h3>Information Model</h3><p>Information Model has two main hierarchies, the Contexts and
+Descriptions.</p><p><img src="images/archi-guide/contexts.png" name="Graphic3" align="bottom" width="400" height="443" border="0" alt=""></img></p><p>This uses UML notations ( A ----<> B means B has 1 or more objects
+of A. A------>B means the given relationship holds between A and B.)</p><p>The two hierarchies are connected as shown in the above figure. The
+Description hierarchy represents data that exists throughout the lifetime of
+Axis2. Examples for such data would be deployed Web Services, operations,
+etc. On the other hand, the context hierarchy holds more dynamic information
+about things that has more than one instances (e.g.Message Context).</p><p>These two hierarchies created a model that provides the ability to search
+for key value pairs, when the values are searched at a given level, they are
+searched while moving up in the level until a match is found. In the
+resulting model the lower levels overrides the values in the upper levels.
+For and example when a value is looked up at the Message Context and it is
+not found, it would be looked up at the Operation Context etc, up the
+hierarchy. The Search is first done up the hierarchy, and if starting point
+is a Context then it is search in the Description hierarchy as well.</p><p>This allows user to declare and override values, and result in very
+flexible configuration model. The flexibility could be the Achilles heel for
+the system, as the search, specially for something that does not exist is
+expensive, yet in the final analysis developers believe that the flexibility
+would serve better in this instants and opt for the flexibility.</p><table class="bodyTable"><col width="112"></col><col width="371"></col><col width="103"></col><col width="336"></col><tbody>
+ <tr class="a"><td width="112"><p>Configuration Context</p>
+ </td><td width="371"><p>Holds the current state of execution. A deep copy of
+ this would essentially make a copy of Axis2.</p>
+ </td><td width="103"><p>Axis Configuration</p>
+ </td><td width="336"><p>Holds all global configurations. Transports, global
+ modules, parameters and Services.</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr class="b"><td width="112"><p>Service Group Context</p>
+ </td><td width="371"><p>Holds information about a perticular usage of the
+ respective service group. The life of a Service Group Context start
+ when a user start to interact with a service that belong to this
+ service group. This can be used to share information between service
+ usages in a single interaction, for services that belong to the same
+ group.</p>
+ </td><td width="103"><p>ServiceGroup Description</p>
+ </td><td width="336"><p>Holds deployment time information about a perticular
+ service group.</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr class="a"><td width="112"><p>Service Context</p>
+ </td><td width="371"><p>This context is avaliable throughout a usage of the
+ respective service. This can be used to share information between
+ several MAPs that belong to the same service, within a single
+ interaction.</p>
+ </td><td width="103"><p>Service Description</p>
+ </td><td width="336"><p>Hold the Operations and the service level
+ configurations</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr class="b"><td width="112"><p>Operation Context</p>
+ </td><td width="371"><p>Holds the information about the current MEP
+ instance, maintain the Messages in the current MEP etc.</p>
+ </td><td width="103"><p>Operation Description</p>
+ </td><td width="336"><p>Holds the operation level configurations</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr class="a"><td width="112"><p><a name="messageContext"></a>Message Context</p>
+ </td><td width="371"><p>Holds all the information about the Message
+ currently being executed.</p>
+ </td><td width="103"><p>Message Description</p>
+ </td><td width="336"><p>Do not hold any information as yet, but can be used
+ as future extension point.</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ </tbody></table><p><br></br>
+<br></br>
+</p><p>All context classes implement readObject, writeObject methods that allows
+to serialize and de-serialize them correctly. Serializing the current
+Configuration Context object would essentially serialize the whole context
+hierarchy. To restore it, the user has to fist perform the de-serialization
+of the ConfigurationContext object. He can restore the description hierarchy
+by calling the init (axisConfiguration) method of the de-serialized
+ConfigurationContext object.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="XML_Processing_Model"></a><h3>XML Processing Model</h3><p>Please refer to the <a href="OMTutorial.html">OM Tutorial</a></p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="SOAP_Processing_Model"></a><h3>SOAP Processing Model</h3><p><img src="images/archi-guide/soap-processing.gif" name="Graphic4" align="bottom" width="755" height="348" border="0" alt=""></img></p><p>The architecture identified two basic actions a SOAP processor should
+perform, sending and receiving SOAP messages. The architecture provides two
+Pipes (also named 'Flows'), to perform these two basic actions. Axis Engine
+or the driver of Axis2 defines two methods send() and receive() to implement
+these two Pipes. The two pipes are named <i>In Pipe</i> and <i>Out Pipe</i>,
+the complex Message Exchange Patterns are constructed by combining these two
+pipes.</p><p>Extensibility of the SOAP processing model is provided through the
+Handlers. When a SOAP message is being processed the Handlers that are
+registered would be executed. The Handlers can be registered in global,
+service, or operation scopes and the final handler chain is calculated
+combining the Handlers from all the scopes.</p><p>The Handlers act as interceptors and they process the parts of the SOAP
+message and provide add on services. Usually Handlers work on the SOAP
+Headers yet they may access or change the SOAP Body as well.</p><p>When a SOAP message is send from the Client API, a <i>Out Pipe</i> would
+begin, the <i>Out Pipe</i> invokes the Handlers and ends with a Transport
+Sender that sends the SOAP message to the target endpoint. The SOAP message
+is received by a Transport Receiver at the target endpoint, which reads the
+SOAP message and starts the <i>In Pipe</i>. The In Pipe consists of Handlers
+and ends with a <a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a>, which consumes the SOAP
+message.</p><p>Above explained processing happens for each and every SOAP message
+exchanged. Processing that follows may decide to give birth for the other
+SOAP messages, in which case the more complex patterns emerge. But Axis2
+always view the SOAP message in terms of processing of a single message where
+as the combination of the messages are layered on top of that basic
+framework.</p><p>The two pipes does not differentiate between the Server and the Client,
+the SOAP Processing Model handles the complexity and provides two abstract
+pipes to the user. Each pipe is a set of Handlers, the different areas of the
+pipes are given names, and according to the Axis2 slang those are named
+'Phases'. A Handler always runs inside a Phase, and the Phase provides a
+mechanism to specify the ordering of Handlers. Both Pipes has built in
+Phases, and both define the areas for 'User Phases' which can be defined by
+the user.</p><p>Following figure shows the two pipes with their pre-defined Phases, the
+user defined Phases would be fit in to the User Phases.</p><p><img src="images/archi-guide/phases.png" name="Graphic5" align="bottom" width="525" height="226" border="0" alt=""></img></p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Axis2_Default_Processing_Model"></a><h3>Axis2 Default Processing Model</h3><p>Axis2 has the, some inbuilt Handlers that run in inbuilt Phases and they
+create the default configuration for the Axis2, we will be looking more in to
+how to extend the default processing Model in the next section.</p><p>There are four special handlers defined in Axis2.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dispatchers - Find the Service the SOAP
+ message is directed to, always run on the In-Pipe and inside the Dispatch
+ Phase. There is a inbuilt Dispatcher, that run in any case and user may
+ override it by placing the dispatchers before the inbuilt Dispatcher.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a name="mr"></a>Message Receiver -
+ Consume the SOAP Message and run on the Message Processing Phase in the
+ inflow</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Transport Sender - Send the SOAP message to the SOAP endpoint the
+ message is destined to. Always runs on the</p>
+ </li>
+</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Processing_an_Incoming_SOAP_Message"></a><h3>Processing an Incoming SOAP Message</h3><p>Incoming SOAP Message is always received by a Transport Receiver waiting
+for the SOAP Messages, once the SOAP Message is arrived the transport Headers
+are parsed and a <a href="#messageContext">Message Context</a> is created for
+the incoming SOAP Message. The the <i>In Pipe</i> is executed with the
+Message Context. Let us see what would happen at the each Phase of the
+execution, this process my happen in either in the server or the Client,
+there is a special case of using the two way transport where the first four
+phases in the In-Phase most likely to do nothing.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Transport Phase - The Handlers in the
+ transport Phase are taken from the transport configuration associated,
+ they are executed according to the Phase rules.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Pre-Dispatch Phase- The Handlers that
+ goes there must be engaged globally (for all services) as the Service
+ does not known at this point. The best example for them would be,
+ Addressing Handlers and may be security Handlers if the Addressing
+ Headers are encrypted.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dispatch Phase - The Dispatchers are run
+ in this Phases and find the Service if the service is not found
+ already.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Post-Dispatch Phase - This phase check
+ weather the service is found, if the service has not found by this point
+ the execution will halt and send a "service not found error". Policy
+ Determination Phase - This Phase does nothing for the time being, this is
+ placed for the implementing the Policy</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">User Defined Phases - User defined Phases
+ are executed here.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Message Validation Phase - Once the user
+ level execution is taken place, this Phase will validates has the SOAP
+ Message Processing has taken place correctly. For an example the must
+ understand processing would happen here.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Message Processing Phase - The Business logic of the SOAP message,
+ executed here, the a <a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a> is registered
+ with a each Operation. The Message receiver associated with the each
+ operation would be executed as the last Handler of this Phase.</p>
+ </li>
+</ol><p>There may be other handlers in the any of the these Phases, users may
+employ custom Handlers to override the mechanics in the each of these Phases.
+If there is a response message, that would be initiated by the <a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a>, yet the architecture is not aware of the
+response message and merely invoke the <a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a>.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Processing_of_the_Outgoing_Message"></a><h3>Processing of the Outgoing Message</h3><p>Out pipe is simpler because the Service and the Operation to dispatch is
+known by the time the pipe is executed. The Out pipe may be initiated by the
+<a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a> or the Client API implementation.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Message Initialize Phase - Fist Phase of
+ the out pipe, this serves as the placeholder for the custom Handlers</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Policy Determination Phase - Just like in
+ the in-pipe this is not implemented and suppose to serve as a extension
+ point</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">User Phases - This executes Handlers in
+ user define Phases</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Transports Phase - Execute any transport Handlers taken from the
+ associated transport configuration and the last handler would be a
+ transport Sender which would send the SOAP message to the target end
+ point</p>
+ </li>
+</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Extending_SOAP_Processing_Model"></a><h3>Extending SOAP Processing Model</h3><p>We discussed the default processing model of the Axis2, ability to extend
+the model has been the whole point of spending the energy on the SOAP
+processing model. We shall discuss the extension mechanism for the SOAP
+processing model now.</p><p>Idea behind making each step of the SOAP processing in terms of Handlers
+(inbuilt ones we discuss earlier) and placing them in the Phases is to allow
+Handlers to be placed between those Handlers and to override or affect the
+default mechanics. There are two ways the to extend the SOAP Processing
+Model.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Extending_the_SOAP_Processing_Model_with_Handlers"></a><h3>Extending the SOAP Processing Model with Handlers</h3><p>The Handlers can specify the Phase they need to be run, further more they
+can specify the there location inside a phase via the following
+information.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Handler should run as the first in the
+ phases</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Handler should run as the last in the
+ Phases</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Handler should run before a given
+ Handlers</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Handler should run after a Given Handler</p>
+ </li>
+</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Extending_the_SOAP_Processing_Model_with_Modules"></a><h3>Extending the SOAP Processing Model with Modules</h3><p>SOAP processing Model defines a logical entity called a module that
+encapsulates two entities, Handlers and Web Service Operations. The Handlers
+will act in the same way as explained in the first method.</p><p>Apart from the extension mechanism based on the Handlers, the WS-*
+specifications suggest a requirement for add new Operations using modules.
+For an example once a user add a Reliable Messaging capability to a Service,
+the "Create Sequence" operation needs to be available to the service end
+point. This can be implemented by letting the Modules define the operations
+and once the module is engaged to a service the operations will be added to
+that service.</p><p>A service, operations or the system may engage a module, once the module
+is engaged the handlers and the operations defined in the module are added to
+the entity that engages them. Modules can not be added while the Axis2 is
+running but later they will be available once the system is restarted.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Deployment"></a><h3>Deployment</h3><p>There deployment Model provides a concrete mechanism to configure Axis2.
+Deployment Model has four entities that provide the configuration.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="The__file"></a><h3>The file</h3><p>This file holds the global configuration for the client and server, and
+provide following information.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The global parameters</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Registered transports in and transport
+ outs</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">User defined Phase names</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Modules that are engaged globally</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Globally defines <a href="#mr">Message Receiver</a>s</p>
+ </li>
+</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Service_Archive"></a><h3>Service Archive</h3><p>Service archive must have a <em>META-INF/services.xml</em> file and may
+contain the dependent classes. the <em>services.xml</em> file has following
+information.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Service level parameters</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Modules that are engaged Service level</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Operations inside the Service</p>
+ </li>
+</ol></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Module_Archive"></a><h3>Module Archive</h3><p>Module archive must have a <em>META-INF/module.xml</em> file and dependent
+classes the <em>module.xml</em> file has Module parameters and the Operations
+defined in the module.</p><p>When the system started up the Axis2 ask the deployment model to create a
+Axis Configuration, the Deployment Model first find a <em>axis2.xml</em> file
+and build the global configuration. Then the Deployment check for the Module
+archives and then for the service archives, the corresponding services and
+Modules are added to the Axis Configuration. System will build Contexts on
+top of the Axis Configurations and the Axis2 is ready to send or receive the
+SOAP Message. The Hot deployment is allowed only for the Service and in that
+case a thread will check the repository repeatedly, and add the Service
+corresponds to the new found Service archives to the repository.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="WSDL_and_code_generation"></a><h3>WSDL and code generation</h3><p>Although the basic objective of the code generation tool has not changed,
+the Code generation module of Axis2 has taken a different approach to
+generate code. Primarily the change is in the use of templates, namely XSL
+templates which gives the code generator the flexibility to generate code in
+multiple languages.</p><p>The basic approach is to set the code generator to generate an XML and
+parse it with a template to generate the code file. The following figure
+shows how this shows up in the architecture of the tool.</p><p><img src="images/archi-guide/CodegenArchitecture.jpg" name="Graphic6" align="bottom" width="478" height="218" border="0" alt=""></img></p><p>The fact here is that it is the same information that is extracted from
+the WSDL no matter what code is generated. Code generator uses the WOM (WSDL
+Object Model) internally to manipulate the WSDL and passes that information
+to the emitter which emits an XML. the XML is then parsed with the relevant
+XSL to generate the code. No matter what the language, the process is the
+same except for the template that is being used</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Data_Binding"></a><h3>Data Binding</h3></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Integration_with_the_code_generation_engine"></a><h3>Integration with the code generation engine</h3><p>Axis2 M2 was released with code generation support but without data
+binding. The version 0.9 was shipped with data binding support with complete
+schema support. Such claim is made possible because of the fact that the data
+binding tool, xml-beans, has the full schema support. The original
+architecture of the code generation framework did not undergo significant
+changes because of the way that the code generation framework was originally
+designed. Data binding was incorporated as a pluggable extension to the code
+generation engine. Version 0.91 did not does not support SOAP encoding. It
+only supports RPC literal or document literal massages.</p><p><img src="images/codegen.gif" name="Graphic7" align="bottom" width="406" height="467" border="0" alt=""></img></p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Serialization_and_De-Serialization"></a><h3>Serialization and De-Serialization</h3><p>Xml-beans supports StAX API and AXIOM is based on a StAX API. Data binding
+in Axis2 is achieved through interfacing the AXIOM with the Xml-beans using
+the StAX API which is supported by both parties. At the time of the code
+generation there will be supporter classes for each WSDL operation that will
+have the utility methods that can de-serialize the from AXIOM to data bound
+object and serialize from data bound object to AXIOM. For example if the WSDL
+has an operation called "echoString", once the code is generated there will
+be an echoStringDatabindingSupporter.java class generated that will have
+methods that will look like the following.</p><p>public static org.apache.axis2.om.OMElement
+toOM(org.soapinterop.xsd.EchoStringParamDocument param) : This method will
+handle the serialization.</p><p>public static org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject
+fromOM(org.apache.axis2.om.OMElement param, java.lang.Class type) : This
+method will handle the de-serialization.</p><p>public static org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject getTestObject(java.lang.Class
+type) : This will be a utility method that can be used to create sample
+objects of the given data bound object.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Client_API"></a><h3>Client API</h3><p>There are three parameters that decide the nature of the Web Service
+interaction.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Message Exchange Pattern</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The Behavior of the transport. Does it
+ act one-way or two way</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Synchronous/ Asynchronous behavior of the Client API</p>
+ </li>
+</ol><p>Variations of the three parameters can result in indefinite number of
+scenarios, even though Axis2 is built on a core that support any messaging
+interaction, the developers were compelled to support only two most widely
+used Message Exchange Patterns.</p><p>Two supported transports are One-Way and the Request-Response scenarios in
+the Client API, the implementation is based on a class called
+<code>MEPClient</code> and there are extensions for each Message Exchange
+Pattern that Axis2 Client API supports.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="One_Way_Messaging_Support"></a><h3>One Way Messaging Support</h3><p>The One-Way support is provided by the <code>InOnlyMEPClient</code> and
+Axis2 provides a class called <code>Call</code> that provides a much simpler
+interface for the user. The Axis2 supports HTTP/SMTP and TCP transports, in
+the case of the HTTP transport the return channel is not used and the HTTP
+202 OK is returned in the return Channel.</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Request_Response_Messaging_Support"></a><h3>Request Response Messaging Support</h3><p>The Request-Response support is provided by the
+<code>InOutMEPClient</code> and Axis2 provides a class called
+<code>MessageSender</code> that provides a much simpler interface for the
+user. The Client API has four ways to configure a given Message Exchange</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Blocking or Non-Blocking nature - this
+ can be decided by using <code>invokeBlocking()</code> or
+ <code>invokeNonBlocking()</code> methods</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Sender transport - transport use to send
+ the SOAP Message</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Listener transport - transport the
+ Response is received</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Use Separate Channel - does the response is send over a separate
+ transport connection or not, this can be false only when sender an
+ listener transport is same and is a two way transport.</p>
+ </li>
+</ol><p>Depend on the values for the above four parameter, Axis2 behave
+differently</p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Transports"></a><h3>Transports</h3><p>Axis2 has two basic constructs for transports, named as Transport In
+Configuration and Transport Out Configuration. The <a href="#messageContext">Message Context</a> has two fields to put the input
+and the out put transport to be used. Axis behaves according to the transport
+that is specified in each of the fields.</p><p>SOAP Message is arrived at the Server side, the incoming transport is
+decided by the Transport Listener that accepts the incoming SOAP Message. The
+transports for the subsequent SOAP Messages that are related to the first
+message, are decided based on the addressing parameters.</p><p>At the Client Side the user is free to specify the transport to be used,
+as in the Server side the transport for the subsequent SOAP Messages are
+decided by the addressing.</p><p>There Transport In Configuration and the Transport Out Configuration
+contains following information.</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Transport Sender in Out Configuration,
+ Transport Listener in the TransportIn Configuration</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Parameters of the transport</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>Transport Handlers</p>
+ </li>
+</ol><p>Transport Sender send the SOAP Message over a given transport, each and
+every transport Out Configuration should define a transport Sender that send
+the transport.</p><p>Transport Receiver waits for the SOAP Messages and for each SOAP Message
+that arrives, uses the <i>In Pipe</i> to process the SOAP Message.</p><p>Axis2 Presently support the following transports</p><ol>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">HTTP - The HTTP transport, the transport
+ Listener is a Servlet or a Simple HTTP server provided by Axis2. The
+ transport Sender uses sockets to connect and send the SOAP Message.
+ Currently we have the commons-HTTP-client based HTTP Transport sender as
+ the default transport</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">TCP - This is the most simplest
+ transport, but needed the addressing support to be functional.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>SMTP - This work off a single email account, Transport Receiver is a
+ tread that checks for emails in fixed time intervals.</p>
+ </li>
</ol></div></div></div></div><div class="clear"><hr></hr></div><div id="footer"><div class="xright">© 2004-2005, Apache Software Foundation</div><div class="clear"><hr></hr></div></div></body></html>