Common Access the ArcGIS Server SOAP API

This sample demonstrates how to work with an ArcGIS Server service using the SOAP API implementation that is part of the Web ADF. The ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.ArcGISServer namespace contains a number of Value objects and a proxy for each service type (e.g. map, geocode, geoprocessing). There are two types of proxies, a Web service proxy and a DCOM proxy. Web service proxies work with ArcGIS Server services via Web service endpoints. DCOM proxies work with ArcGIS Server services via a SOM (Server Object Manager) endpoint over DCOM. Web service proxies and Value objects are often generated by Web service toolkits (e.g. Microsoft .NET SDK tool - wsdl.exe) by consuming a WSDL (Web Service Description Language). The WSDL tells a consumer how they can interact with the service. The consumer is responsible for generating the native client classes to support working with the service. A standard protocol for working with service, especially Web services, is SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). The Value objects store values and the proxy serializes the values into SOAP to be sent to the remote service. When the SOAP response is returned, the proxy deserializes it and creates the appropriate Value objects for use on the client. This sample demonstrates how to work with an Ar