Using Communications Protocols Other than HTTP in your Web Service

Although the default implementation of the Web services framework uses the HTTP protocol to receive and send messages, JADE provides supporting methods in the JadeWebServiceProvider class that enable you to use other communications protocols; for example, SMTP or TCP. These methods and an example of their use are contained in the following subsections.

In addition, the JadeWebServiceConsumer class invoke method enables you to send the message to your Web service provider using your own communication handlers or dynamically connects to a Web service (that is, without using or importing a WSDL file).