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There is lot of material available on net about the REST design pattern and REST way of services but still to get started you need to read a few before you could make a call. I have tried to summarize my beginning to make it easier for others. REST: The Style of Architecture REST ( REpresentation State Transfer) is the way the whole web is organized. Web is a collection of resources which can be identified with a URI which are globally identifiable. People do struggle to define REST. One wrong statement is "REST is a communication Protocol". REST is not protocol; it is just a style of software architecture for distributed system. REST style of Architecture shows following characteristics: As opposed to the procedure based approach of SOAP, REST follows the action based approach to act on a resource. The actions can be described in the form of four verbs: (In HTTP world these are referred to as Methods. T...

I was searching on net to know how to send soap request from JavaFX. I could not get a straight answer. While looking at the JavaFX 1.0 API, I did find java.io.http.HttpRequest class to send HTTP asynchronous requests. The document says that you can invoke RESTful weservices through the class. Since HTTPRequest supports POST as a method for sending the request, I though of sending the SOAP message over HTTP. I wrote a simple utility class to facilitate the same and it did help me achieve my goal. The example is a simple class keping in mind that usually soap request are known through WSDL but we do mistakes while preparing a complete XML soap message. I would like to share some of the points for anyone trying the same. 1. Create a simple SoapRequest class as follows: public class SoapRequest extends HttpRequest{ 2. Define the variables to create xml tags, Soap envelop and body tags // xml header  var XML_HEADER:String = "";  // namespace for SOAP 1.1 message, this...