Appendix B: SOAP Tools

This appendix provides information about the tools in Interaction Designer that process SOAP requests and responses. SOAP tools are late-bound, meaning that the structure of data processed by a SOAP handler does not have to be specified at compile time when the handler is published. SOAP tool steps can be added to any handler, to create and send SOAP requests to any server that understands SOAP. SOAP Tools do not support calls to an SSL server. In CIC 2.3 and later, the assumed namespace prefix is SOAP, rather than SOAP-ENV, for compatibility with Microsoft .NET. These tools are also documented in the Interaction Designer help.

There are 5 categories of SOAP tools:

• Initiator Tools
• Request Tools
• Payload Processing Tools
• Invocation Tools
• Helper Tools