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Messaging Modes

Objects that implement the Provider interface have two messaging modes:

The messaging mode you specify determines the level of messaging detail that is passed to your implementation.

When using message mode, a Provider implementation works with complete messages. A complete message includes any binding specific headers and wrappers. For example, a Provider implementation that uses a SOAP binding receives requests as fully specified SOAP message. Any response returned from the implementation must be a fully specified SOAP message.

To specify that a Provider implementation uses message mode by provide the value java.xml.ws.Service.Mode.MESSAGE as the value to the javax.xml.ws.ServiceMode annotation, as shown in Example 19.9.


In payload mode a Provider implementation works with only the payload of a message. For example, a Provider implementation working in payload mode works only with the body of a SOAP message. The binding layer processes any binding level wrappers and headers.

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When working with a binding that does not use special wrappers, such as the FUSE Services Framework XML binding, payload mode and message mode provide the same results.

To specify that a Provider implementation uses payload mode by provide the value java.xml.ws.Service.Mode.PAYLOAD as the value to the javax.xml.ws.ServiceMode annotation, as shown in Example 19.10.


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If you do not provide a value for the @ServiceMode annotation, the Provider implementation uses payload mode.