Like most business-to-business Web sites, Motorprise needs to integrate with many other systems, from fulfillment houses to the business systems of its partners. We used the Motorprise example in the ATG Business Commerce Reference Application to demonstrate one possible way of achieving this integration. Motorprise includes a simple example of the exchange of XML documents via Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). We elected to use SOAP as the protocol for the communication layer because it is XML-based and thus supports integration with disparate systems. This chapter contains the following sections:
What is SOAP?Provides a brief overview of Simple Object Access Protocol.
Using SOAP in MotorpriseDescribes how we used SOAP in Motorprise.
Client Pieces of SOAP in MotorpriseDescribes the client pieces.
Server Pieces of SOAP in MotorpriseDescribes the server pieces.
