SOA Soap request

Question

Hi Friends,
Newer to soa suite 11g
1>I have craated small soa 11g app. i send small xml request in EM and I get xml response in EM TESTER. so far good (This is NOT how internet websites work. They work in HTML rendered in browser for Request and Response)
My question is, how does this behave in REAL world. Meaning, a website has a form that user would fill - in and submit. Then, what happens ? "Who and How" does those submitted form values get converted into XML format (ofcourse adhering to XSD) for my soa application to consume ? and How would the XML response coming from soa application again get converted into HTML so that the website user can view it in browser ?
2> Second, if I want to collect the submitted user values and create a XML, is it sufficient to use just XML (without referring to any XSD) and let it talk to the soa application (that talks to external webservice and gets the response). If not using any xsd then how do i MAP incoming request values to reference exposed webservice WSDL ? OR is it that XSD is must for the incoming SOAP request so that data mapping can be done with the referenced WSDL ?
thx
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Answer 1

Hi,
Regarding your first question, there are two ways to achieve your desired behaviour. The first one is to create a proxy, using that proxy to create a data control using the web service you have created, and then using an adf form, create a form, that you take care of the submission. In a similar way, you can capture the response back and display it as you would like.
You could create your own input form, and then create your xml request message (based on the web service schema) and submit it. Popular techniques include JAX-RPC, REST Services, etc. I believe this answers your second question. Calling synchronous web services is quite easy, as your just wait for a response. Calling asynchronous web services is a bit tricky if implemented programmatically.
Antonis