However, BMP developers should still be able to create coarse-grained entity beans. Click here to learn how. Integrating SOAP and EJB By Billy Newport, Enterprise Consultant. When is SOAP a good idea in a project. SOAP is basically an XML marshalling mechanism for RPC calls.
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