A SOAP message consists of a header and a body, both of which are contained in a SOAP envelope:
Figure 1-1: SOAP message structure
Following is an example of SOAP request message for a select statement.
Figure 1-2: SOAP request message
The request message contains no header information. The following SOAP response message corresponds to the previous request message. This message contains a header. The body of the message is not shown.
Figure 1-3: SOAP response message
For more detailed information on SOAP, refer to the following documents:
Simple Object Access Protocol (1.1): http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
Simple Object Access Protocol (1.2) Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
Simple Object Access Protocol (1.2) Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2/
