Reliable Web Services With SOAP Over MOM

Gautam Shah has written an interesting article in Javaworld where he discusses ways to use SOAP over MOM (message oriented middleware) implementations, instead of default HTTP, to build reliable web services.

The premise is simple. HTTP is not reliable. Message bus is. SOAP over MOM offers the application integration capability of SOAP with the reliability of MOM. A very interesting proposal.

Read the article here, which uses Apache Axis for SOAP implementation and JMS.