About the HTTP Binding Component

The HTTP Binding Component provides connectivity for SOAP over HTTP in a JBI 1.0 compliant environment. The HTTP Binding Component is used as both a provider proxy to support connectivity to services in the JBI environment, and as a consumer proxy to invoke services.

The JBI platform enables software vendors to provide services that can be invoked by external components using different protocols. These services are represented as JBI service engines and implement the business logic of the service. JBI binding components implement the protocol transformations between abstract messages handled by the JBI Service Engines and concrete messages of the protocol.

The HTTP Binding Component enables external components to invoke services, hosted by the JBI platform, using SOAP messages over the HTTP/HTTPS protocol. It also allows JBI components to invoke external web services using the same SOAP over the HTTP/HTTPS protocol.

The transformation of abstract messages to SOAP messages occurs in the HTTP Binding Component. WSDL extensibility elements, as defined in the WSDL 1.1, SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2 specifications, and Basic Profile 1.1, are used to properly configure this transformation. These WSDL extensibility elements are part of the binding and service sections of WSDL documents. These WSDL documents are the major artifacts included in a Service Unit, the JBI deployable unit into a Binding Component. Both the binding and service sections of a WSDL document must be properly filled out to determine how the message is transformed and the destination of that message.