NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

• Hot deployment of services
New services can be deployed or existing services can be removed from NonStop SOAP
without stopping the server.
• Dynamic invocation
A single deployment of NonStop SOAP can be used to expose applications as Web services.
Every application is deployed as a Web service under NonStop SOAP.
• Advanced caching
NonStop SOAP provides built-in caching of services it hosts. The caching functionality helps
you to access the frequently accessed services faster by caching the request and response
structures.
• Encoding support
NonStop SOAP provides native support for more than 1000 character encodings. For more
information on supported encodings, see “NonStop SOAP 4 Features” (page 217).
Architecture of NonStop SOAP
NonStop SOAP server runs under the iTP WebServer and uses it to communicate with SOAP clients
using HTTP.
NonStop SOAP has a modular architecture with individual modules to:
• interact with the iTP WebServer
• process SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 messages
• communicate with Pathway applications and NonStop processes
• manage transactions and WS-Security headers
Figure 1 illustrates the NonStop SOAP architecture.
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