The SOAP provider allows WSIF stubs and dynamic clients to invoke SOAP services.
Why and when to perform this task
The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) SOAP provider supports SOAP 1.1 over HTTP.
The SOAP provider supports:
The SOAP provider is not transactional.
The SOAP provider does not support the WSIF synchronous timeout. The SOAP provider uses the default client timeout value that is set for Web Services for J2EE.
If you have a Web service that you expect multiple clients to use connecting over SOAP, then before you deploy the service you must set up your application deployment descriptor file dds.xml to handle multiple connections correctly. For more information, see WSIF troubleshooting tips.
What to do next
For an example of the sort of code changes that need to be made in the WSDL file for a SOAP provider, see the following topics: