RE: programming model for document-style SOAP

Anne, Hao,

I agree with Anne's reply indicating that the choice between RPC or 
document-style does not mandate a particular client programming style. The 
WSDL spec e.g. specifically says that "This information _may_ be used to 
select an appropriate programming model".

However, while I understand that you can do document-style messaging using 
normal stubs, I'm also interested in scenarios where the messages have 
more variable format (an unknown number of documents, each with optional 
attachment, say) than is typical for RPC (three integer parameters, say). 
For handling sg. like this an approach with callback handlers (like Hao 
seems to indicate as well) seems like an attractive option to me. I'd be 
curious to learn more about existing approaches esp. of this kind.

Regards,
Christian

Hao He <Hao.He@thomson.com.au> wrote on 01/09/2003 01:55:14 AM:

> We are using a strategy pattern in our implementation: you have a 
generic
> reader which decomposes the document to various parts that can be 
handled by
> various handlers.  Perhaps  this is similar to your handler as well? The
> cool thing about this approach is that each handler only needs to under 
one
> aspect of the document.