Research And Application Of SOAP In Distributed System

With the development of information technic, the electronic commerce becomes a hot issue of the business and computer realm. The cooperation of the business enterprises is much more extensive.Because of history reason and the difference of the technique choice, the business enterprise is hard to realize mutual communication.Moreover, with the close cooperation of business enterprises,it must ensure the independence of own information system for the sake of safety and business secret. At this time,XML Web service and it's SOAP appear for above reasons.It is main to study and realize the distributed application about SOAP in this paper. Established a electronic commerce model about shopping website. This model is constituted by several distributed system, via SOAP to communicate.This model is main to constitute with three distributed web system (the shopping website, goods provided company, Physical Distribution company). The shopping website is a service interface to face the customer. The data of the merchandise information is provided by the Web service of Goods provided company. The purchasing information will be send to the services of Goods provided company and PD company by the shopping website's web server. The purchasing information will be deal with by the services of Goods provided company and PD company. Via to deliver SOAP message which binds http protocol, web services exchange message. It' s own business of every reveiver to handle the message, as long as this system may handle SOAP message and provide the service and interface to caller,. So every system may adopt different technique and platform.Via studying the SOAP application in this distributed system, it explains the advantage of SOAP to handle RPC in these distributed or heterogenous system. At the same time, it explains that SOAP can solve the message exchanged problen of B2B.