Calling SOAP with Ajax
Here’s a two part article from IBM on how to call SOAP services using Ajax.
“Invoking SOAP Web services from within a Web browser can be a tricky exercise, particularly because the most popular Web browsers each handle generating and processing of XML in slightly different ways. There are few standard APIs or capabilities for XML processing that all browsers implement consistently.
One of the mechanisms that browser implementers agree on is the XMLHttpRequest API, which is at the heart of the Ajax design pattern. Thoroughly described in another recently published paper on developerWorks written by Philip McCarthy, XMLHttpRequest is a Javascript object that you can use to perform asynchronous HTTP requests. The paper describes a sequence diagam that is very help in understanding how the XMLHttpRequest object enables the Ajax design.”
Part 1: Call SOAP Web services with Ajax, Part 1: Build the Web services client
Part 2: Call SOAP Web services with Ajax, Part 2: Extend the Web services client
