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7034918: Integrate JAX-WS 2.2.4-b01 in to JDK 7
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!-- Copyright (c) 1993, 2002, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any questions. --> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> Provides the API for creating and building SOAP messages. This package is defined in the <i>SOAP with Attachments API for Java<sup><font size="-2">TM</font></sup> (SAAJ) 1.3</i> specification. <p> The API in the <code>javax.xml.soap</code> package allows you to do the following: </p> <ul> <li>create a point-to-point connection to a specified endpoint </li> <li>create a SOAP message </li> <li>create an XML fragment </li> <li>add content to the header of a SOAP message </li> <li>add content to the body of a SOAP message </li> <li>create attachment parts and add content to them </li> <li>access/add/modify parts of a SOAP message </li> <li>create/add/modify SOAP fault information </li> <li>extract content from a SOAP message </li> <li>send a SOAP request-response message </li> </ul> <p> <!-- <h2>Package Specification</h2> --> <!-- The SAAJ 1.1 specification gives an overview of the --> <!-- <code>javax.xml.soap</code> package and --> <!-- explains how its classes and interfaces work. --> <!-- <ul> --> <!-- <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/downloads/jaxm.html"> --> <!-- SAAJ 1.1 Specification</a> --> <!-- </ul> --> <!-- <h2>Related Documentation</h2> --> <!-- For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see: --> <!-- <ul> --> <!-- <li><a href="../../../../tutorial/doc/JAXM.html">JAXM Tutorial</a> --> <!-- <li><a href="../../../../jaxm/index.html">JAXM Reference Implementation (RI) --> <!-- Documentation</a> --> <!-- </ul> --> </p> In addition the APIs in the <code>javax.xml.soap</code> package extend their counterparts in the <code>org.w3c.dom</code> package. This means that the <code>SOAPPart</code> of a <code>SOAPMessage</code> is also a DOM Level 2 <code>Document</code>, and can be manipulated as such by applications, tools and libraries that use DOM (see http://www.w3.org/DOM/ for more information). It is important to note that, while it is possible to use DOM APIs to add ordinary DOM nodes to a SAAJ tree, the SAAJ APIs are still required to return SAAJ types when examining or manipulating the tree. In order to accomplish this the SAAJ APIs (specifically {@link javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement#getChildElements()}) are allowed to silently replace objects that are incorrectly typed relative to SAAJ requirements with equivalent objects of the required type. These replacements must never cause the logical structure of the tree to change, so from the perspective of the DOM APIs the tree will remain unchanged. However, the physical composition of the tree will have changed so that references to the nodes that were replaced will refer to nodes that are no longer a part of the tree. The SAAJ APIs are not allowed to make these replacements if they are not required so the replacement objects will never subsequently be silently replaced by future calls to the SAAJ API. <p> What this means in practical terms is that an application that starts to use SAAJ APIs on a tree after manipulating it using DOM APIs must assume that the tree has been translated into an all SAAJ tree and that any references to objects within the tree that were obtained using DOM APIs are no longer valid. Switching from SAAJ APIs to DOM APIs is not allowed to cause invalid references and neither is using SAAJ APIs exclusively. It is only switching from using DOM APIs on a particular SAAJ tree to using SAAJ APIs that causes the risk of invalid references.<br> </body> </html>