A book is often able to take the time and space to delve into an API in a way that an ordinary on-line article can not. That is why we have been featuring book excerpts along with our usual feature articles here on java.net. Richard Monson-Haefel takes an in depth look at SOAP 1.1 in this excerpt from J2EE Web Services, published by Addison-Wesley.

We are presenting this book excerpt as a PDF download. The file size is a little over 300K. Download Chapter 4: "SOAP". (The download includes the introduction to Part II.)

Richard Monson-Haefel currently serves on the J2EE 1.4 (JSR-151) and EJB 2.1 (JSR-153) and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert groups for the Java Community Process.