Message Service Specification (MSS)

Message Service Specification (MSS) is a communications-protocol neutral method for exchanging electronic business messages. It supports reliable, secure delivery of business information and a flexible enveloping technique. This flexible enveloping technique is being used to incorporate features of and messages.

Message Service Specification (MSS)

The Message Service Specification contains two parts:

  1. Header container. This is the first MIME part, containing One SOAP message. The SOAP message is an XML document consisting of a SOAP Envelope element. The SOAP Envelope element consists of:

    SOAP-ENV:Header. This is a generic mechanism for adding features to SOAP message, including ebXML specific header elements.

    SOAP-ENV:Body. This is a container for message service handler control data and information related to the payload parts of the message.

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  2. Payload containers. There can be zero or more additional MIME parts containing application specific payloads. .

MSS can use HTTP, but other protocols such as HTTPS, and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) may by used.

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