SOAP/ XML message handling at Server side

Hi,

I have a web service which deals with XML data using SOAP. It first gets a request(String in XML) and then respond to the sender in a single string through XML. I searched through so many forums, there are many ways given to send a request and then handle the response but I didn't get a way how to first get the request and then send the response. My response if working fine though.

Can anybody help with this?

re: SOAP/ XML message handling at Server side

could you explain it maybe with an example? I couldn't understand your problem at all.

re: SOAP/ XML message handling at Server side

Thanks for you reply.

Let me explain it in a bit. For an example, I am sending "hi" from my Java program to my web service and I send back "hello" if I can read the string or send "failure" if my program can not read a string. My web service logic is written in vb.net. It seems a very simple thing but the tricky part is 'web service does not send something to start comnnunication'. I searched a lot on web but I get "httpwebrequest" and then "httpwebresponse" which uses httpWebRequest to send the response. But in this case, my program is acting as a server which gets a request from the client and sends the response back.


Thanks,

Kim

re: SOAP/ XML message handling at Server side

that's right, the webservice itself is not intended to start communication.

so, why should your websevice start communication (or taken one step further—to whom)?