SOAP Based Webservices in Apex

Can you please let me if we can create a SOAP Based Webservices in Apex. Apex will be the provider of the webservice and my other 3rd party application will be consumer.

Thanks for the reply.
Now I am slightly understanding about web services. For example, If I place an order for an digital camera from a shopping site, can I route the order information from shopping site to APEX and from APEX can I process it further by integrating with paypal for online payments and get acknowledge from paypal that payment has been made and provide an acknowledgment to shopping site from APEX that order has been shipped to your shipping address. Is this possible? Please let me know regarding this..
Thanks and Regards,
Mahesh

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I want to develop a SOAP based Webservice which connects to the PostgreSQL DB , by fetching the data for the employeeId entered and display the results in the browser. I'm using using JDK 1.6, Tomcat 6.0, Axis 2.0 , with Axis 2 Eclipse Plugin. Please send me a sample code of how to build it, i am able find some examples on the internet, but none of them are related to connecting to the DB and fetching the data. It will be great if you guys can provide the sample application which does have the same functionality as mine. Please do respond as this is urgent. Thanks in advance..
Thanks,
Rithu

Thanks Adhir Mehtaji, This is what i have come up with, developing a webservices based on SAAJ and deploying that in Tomcat server, here is the Webservice and the other related files:-
public class EmployeeService {
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     * @param empId String
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          for( int i=0; i < empIdNodeList.getLength(); i++ ) {
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               Node empIdNode = empIdElementElement.getChildNodes().item(0);
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          //addNode(body,"segmentName1",custSegmentDAO.getSegmentName(ZipCode));
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          body.addChildElement(nodeName).addTextNode(nodeValue);
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               // Get the SOAP Message response , which contains the employee name for the empId 100
               // Parse the SOAP Message response to get the employee name (response from the WS)
               String[] nodeNames = { "empId" };
               String[] nodeValues = { "100" };
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                         "getEmployeeName", nodeNames, nodeValues);
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                         .createConnection();
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                         "http://localhost:8080/axis/services/EmployeeService");
               // If the response is not null then everything is fine with the WS.
               System.out.println("the response is what???"+response);
               System.out.println("\n Soap response:\n");
               System.out.println("\nXML response\n");
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               Transformer tf = tff.newTransformer();
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               System.out.println();
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               System.out.println("the soapBody is what???"+soapBody);
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               System.out.println("the empNameNodeList.getLength is::"+empNameNodeList.getLength());
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                    System.out.println("inside the loop");
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                    System.out.println("the empNameElement is what???"+empNameElement);
                    Node empNameNode = empNameElement.getChildNodes().item(0);
                    System.out.println("the empNameNode is what???"+empNameNode);
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                              + empNameNode.getNodeValue());
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          private static SOAPMessage getMessageFactory(String methodName,
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               try {
                    System.out.println("Inside the getMessageFactory");
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                    message = messageFactory.createMessage();
                    SOAPPart soapPart = message.getSOAPPart();
                    SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
                    SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();
                    SOAPElement bodyElement = body.addChildElement(envelope
                              .createName(methodName));
                    for (int index = 0; index < nodeNames.length; index++) {
                         bodyElement.addChildElement(nodeNames[index]).addTextNode(
                                   nodeValues[index]);
                    message.saveChanges();
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                    message.writeTo(System.out);
                    System.out.println();
               } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
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     This client will send a SOAPMessage with EmpId (100) as a request and get the response from the Webservice as SOAPMessage , which
     contains the empname for the respective empid which is passed.
I tested this service in the browser, it is up and running through the URL : http://localhost:8080/axis/services
But when i try to access the webservice to get the response from my client program, i am getting the following SOAP Fault string:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>
soapenv:Server.userException
</faultcode>
<faultstring>
org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: Feature: http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler
</faultstring>
<detail>
<ns1:hostname xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">
user-15bbc0db6e
</ns1:hostname>
</detail>
</soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
My client path contains :-
axis.jar;
jaxrpc.jar;
saaj.jar;
commons-logging.jar;
commons-discovery.jar;
wsdlj4.jar;
axis-ant.jar;
log4j-1.2.4.jar
xerces.jar
activation.jar
mail.jar
Similary the in the d:/tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib,contains the same as that in client path.
I am using Tomcat 6.0 , JDK 1.6, I have googled and found that the expection is due to "Xerces.jar" not in Tomcat/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib.
I have copied xerces.jar in the said path, still the error persists. Please do provide a solution to this. Where i have gone wrong.
I have one more query, If i have to rest a "list" as a response from the server (webservice), how i can add the list into the SOAPMessage? Whether i need to parse it and add the values one by one in the SOAPMessage? like
<empname> xxxx</empname> <empage>25</empage>
<empname> yyyy</empname> <empage>26</empage>
Please answer these queries.
Thanks,
Rithu

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Hi Chandra Sekhar,
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SOAP Adapter: SOAP Adapter converts the SOAP messages into SAP XI message format that is SOAP with header attachments. This in an area many needs to really concentrate as it is heart of the ESA literature going forward.
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/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/03/01/testing-xi-exposed-web-services
and Invoking XI Webservices:
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RFC to WebService - A Complete Walkthrough - Part 1
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and RFC -> XI -> WebService - A Complete Walkthrough -Part 2.
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Edited by: IHodgetts on May 21, 2010 5:45 PM
Edited by: IHodgetts on Jun 21, 2010 12:07 PM

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>
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\ as it is a special character.
Regards Michael

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