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WSIF SOAP provider: working with existing applications


The current WSIF default SOAP provider (the IBM Web Service SOAP provider) does not fully interoperate with services that are designed to run on the former (Apache SOAP) provider. This is because the IBM Web Service SOAP provider is designed to interoperate fully with a JAX-RPC compliant Web service, and Apache SOAP cannot provide such a service.

As a result of the change from the Apache SOAP provider to the IBM Web Service SOAP provider, previous WSIF clients might not work in either of the following cases:

  1. The Web service uses any of the following parameter types: xsd:date, xsd:dateTime, xsd:hexBinary or xsd:QName.

    See the Type Mappings section of WSIF - Known restrictions.

  2. The Web service was built upon the Apache SOAP provider.

To get the existing services working again, we have two options:

 


Modify Web services to use the IBM Web Service SOAP provider
Change the default WSIF SOAP provider

 

Related tasks


Linking a WSIF service to a SOAP over HTTP service