Chapter 6. Using HTTP
Abstract
HTTP is the underlying transport for the Web. It provides a standardized, robust, and flexible platform for communicating between endpoints. Because of these factors it is the assumed transport for most WS-* specifications and is integral to RESTful architectures.
Important
The Java Business Integration components of Red Hat JBoss Fuse are considered deprecated. You should consider migrating any JBI applications to OSGi.
6.1. Adding a Basic HTTP Endpoint
Overview
There are three ways of specifying an HTTP endpoint’s address depending on the payload format you are using.
- SOAP 1.1 uses the standardized
soap:addresselement. - SOAP 1.2 uses the
soap12:addresselement. - All other payload formats use the
http:address element.
SOAP 1.1
When you are sending SOAP 1.1 messages over HTTP you must use the SOAP 1.1
address element to specify the endpoint’s address. It has one attribute, location, that specifies the endpoint’s address as a URL. The SOAP 1.1 address element is defined in the namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/.
Example 6.1, “SOAP 1.1 Port Element” shows a
port element used to send SOAP 1.1 messages over HTTP.
Example 6.1. SOAP 1.1 Port Element
<definitions ...
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" ...>
...
<service name="SOAP11Service">
<port binding="SOAP11Binding" name="SOAP11Port">
<soap:address location="http://artie.com/index.xml">
</port>
</service>
...
<definitions>SOAP 1.2
When you are sending SOAP 1.2 messages over HTTP you must use the SOAP 1.2
address element to specify the endpoint’s address. It has one attribute, location, that specifies the endpoint’s address as a URL. The SOAP 1.2 address element is defined in the namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/.
Example 6.2, “SOAP 1.2 Port Element” shows a
port element used to send SOAP 1.2 messages over HTTP.
Example 6.2. SOAP 1.2 Port Element
<definitions ...
xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" ... >
<service name="SOAP12Service">
<port binding="SOAP12Binding" name="SOAP12Port">
<soap12:address location="http://artie.com/index.xml">
</port>
</service>
...
</definitions>Other messages types
When your messages are mapped to any payload format other than SOAP you must use the HTTP
address element to specify the endpoint’s address. It has one attribute, location, that specifies the endpoint’s address as a URL. The HTTP address element is defined in the namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/.
Example 6.3, “HTTP Port Element” shows a
port element used to send an XML message.
Example 6.3. HTTP Port Element
<definitions ...
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" ... >
<service name="HTTPService">
<port binding="HTTPBinding" name="HTTPPort">
<http:address location="http://artie.com/index.xml">
</port>
</service>
...
</definitions>