Difference between message-oriented and RPC oriented web services

Question

JAX-WS allows developers to write message-oriented as well as Remote Procedure Call-oriented (RPC-oriented) web services

I am new to JAX-WS. I want to know what is the difference between message-oriented and remote procedure call-oriented web service.

Answer 1

In RPC based the methods in a Web service are called through a RPC, i.e. in a synchronous way through a specific port and protocol.

But message-oriented is Message based Web Services the methods are called through an HTTP request using SOAP.

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