Jakarta SOAP with Attachments (SAAJ; formerly SOAP with Attachments API for Java), as part of

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(JAX-WS), provides a standard way to send

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documents over the

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from the

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platform. SAAJ enables developers to produce and consume messages conforming to the

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1.1 and 1.2 specifications and SOAP with Attachments note. It can be used as an alternative to

JAX-RPC Jakarta XML RPC (JAX-RPC; formerly Java API for XML Based RPC) allows a Jakarta EE application to invoke a Java-based web service with a known description while still being consistent with its Web Services Description Language, WSDL description. JA ...

JAX-WS The Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS; formerly Java API for XML Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API for creating web services, particularly SOAP services. JAX-WS is one of the Java XML programming APIs. Overview The JAX-WS 2.2 specificatioJSR 2 ...

. SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol was created by Mohsen Al-Ghosein,

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, Bob Atkinson, and Don Box in 1998 with help from Microsoft.

References

External links

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Java Web Services in a Nutshell

(from "The Java EE 5 Tutorial")
SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) Specification 1.3 (JSR 67)

The SAAJ Standard Implementation Project
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