Protocols

A protocol defines how data to be sent or received should be, respectively, encoded or decoded, following an isomorphism.

Protocols are referred by name. Examples of valid (supported) protocol names are:

• http
• https
• soap
• sodep (a binary protocol specifically developed for Jolie)
• xmlrpc

For a thorough description of the protocols supported by Jolie and their parameters see Protocols section.

Let us consider the following input port declaration:

inputPort SumInput {
    Location: "socket://localhost:8000/"
    Protocol: soap
    Interfaces: SumInterface
}

SumInput is an inputPort, and it exposes the operations defined in SumInterface interface. Such operations can be invoked at the TCP/IP socket localhost, on port 8000, and by encoding messages with the soap protocol.

Finally, let us define the SumServ outputPort, which is used to invoke the services exposed by SumInput:

outputPort SumServ {
    Location: "socket://localhost:8000/"
    Protocol: soap
    Interfaces: SumInterface
}