B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

206 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce
as authentication, transaction management, payment, etc. to a SOAP
message in a decentralized manner without prior agreement between
the communicating parties.
• A SOAP body, which contains mandatory information, intended
for the ultimate recipient of the message. It contains both call and
response information.
HTTP Request Message
EXAMPLE MESSAGE
SUNW
This SOAP message will be embedded in the HTTP request. The
description of the document is as follows:
1. The envelope is the first element of the XML document.
The namespace prefixes "SOAP-ENV" and "SOAP-ENC" used
in this document are associated with the SOAP namespaces
"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope" and
"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">.
2. The namespace for the function (s) is defined at
"http://www.getstock.org".
3. GetStockQuote request is sent to the server. The request has a
StockSymbol parameter with the value SUNW.
Continue on page 207