The client and server for this sample implement the SOAP interoperability echo test suite as defined by the soapbuilders community. More info on these tests, and a selection of clients and servers to test against, is available at the XMethods interop lab.

Note that there are two deployment descriptor options. DeploymentDescriptor.xml is the "classic" structure. DeploymentDescriptor2.xml works only with Apache SOAP versions later than 2.3.1. All namespace definitions are valid according to the XML Namespace spec, so parsers like Xerces 2.0.2 accept it.

Author: Glen Daniels