SOAP and Web Services

Acrobat 7.0 and later provides support for the SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 standards in order to enable PDF forms to communicate with web services. This support has made it possible to include both SOAP header and body information, send binary data more efficiently, use document/literal encoding, and facilitate authenticated or encrypted communications. In addition, it provides the ability to locate network services using DNS Service Discovery. All of this makes it possible to integrate PDF files into existing workflows by binding XML forms to schemas, databases, and web services. These workflows include the ability to share comments remotely or invoke web services through form field actions.

Topics	Description
Using SOAP and web services	Describes the major methods and properties of the SOAP object; also discusses such topics as synchronous and asynchronous information exchange, exchanging file attachments and binary data, accessing SOAP header information and authentication.
DNS service discovery	How to the queryServices and resolveService methods to locate the service on the network and bind to it for communications.
Managing XML-based information	How to use XPath to extract XML data.
Workflow applications	Discusses how a SOAP-based collaboration server can be used to share comments remotely via a web-based comment repository.

Describes the major methods and properties of the SOAP object; also discusses such topics as synchronous and asynchronous information exchange, exchanging file attachments and binary data, accessing SOAP header information and authentication.

DNS service discovery

How to the queryServices and resolveService methods to locate the service on the network and bind to it for communications.

Managing XML-based information

How to use XPath to extract XML data.

Workflow applications

Discusses how a SOAP-based collaboration server can be used to share comments remotely via a web-based comment repository.

Note: Beginning with version 8, the SOAP object is deprecated, though support will continue. Use the Net.SOAP when developing any new web services. See the documentation of the Net object in the JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference for details.