Chapter 4. JAXM

SAAJ is a convenient API that allows applications to exchange SOAP messages containing information encoded in XML, together with arbitrary data held in message attachments. Although it is useful on its own, SAAJ is also the basis for JAX-RPC and for the Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM). This chapter looks at the features that JAXM adds to SAAJ and describes how to configure and use the JAXM reference implementation.

Although JAXM is part of the Java Web Services Developers Pack, it is not one of the APIs that was selected for inclusion in Version 1.4 of the J2EE platform. The examples in this chapter can therefore only be used with the JWSDP. JAXM may be integrated into a future release of J2EE, but at the time of this writing, there is no commitment on Sun's part to do this.