Hervey has posted a sample implementation of a soap.udp:// transport for WSE2. That protocol offers some interesting options when it comes to IPV4 multicasting. Since there might be more transports becoming available, I added a wiki page over at SoaWiki to keep track of Wse2CustomTransports.

I’m really excited about the possibilities offered by WSE2’s support for custom network transports. As computer networks have evolved, the industry has developed a number of different network protocols to solve various different message distribution problems. WSE2 now offers the glue necessary to allow us to take advantage of these different protocols, while uniting them with a common message format and a unified set of message processing rules.

SOAP messaging isn’t just an HTTP thing anymore.