IF REST is HTTP and SOAP is Protocol independent then Why ?

[Rajesh Khan]

I was just curious , currently the address in my WSDL SOAP File is

<wsdl:port name="ImsPort" binding="tns:ImsBinding">
<soap:address location="http://localhost:87/SomeMethod"/>
</wsdl:port>

Now since SOAP response is passed along with the HTTP response , Why is this working with port 87 ? isnt 80 the HTTP port) while deploying the service ??
I would appreciate it if someone could explain how this would work I know i am missing something here... )

Also Incase of rest i am testing my REST application using

curl http://localhost:6517/JerseyServer/rest/contacts

since REST runs over http ? How is it running over 6517 port ?? Wasnt that suppose to be 80 ? I am using Jersey??

[Tim Moores]

I don't understand everything you wrote, but HTTP is not confined to port 80 - it can run on any port that you care to configure Tomcat for.

[Rajesh Khan]

Thank you Tim for your initial reply . I guess my initial post was a bit unclear.
Let me rephrase my questions:
1- I read and observed (TCPmon) that incase of SOAP webservices , the soap message is transferred through HTTP. I know it could use other protocols as well like SMTP etc.
Now what i am curious about is that in my WSDL file I am using port 87 for communication and it works. I wanted to know how does JAX-WS know that it is suposed to be transferred over HTTP even though port 87 is not an http port ??
WSDL file states :

<wsdl:port name="ImsPort" binding="tns:ImsBinding">
<soap:address location="http://localhost:87/SomeMethod"/>
</wsdl:port> 

2-Now about REST webservices they require HTTP to work.
so why do we get an HTTP response from our webservice when we do something like this

    curl http://localhost:6517/JerseyServer/rest/contacts  

How is the webservice bein mapped to 6517 when the http port in 80 ?

I hope my questions make sense .

[Paul Clapham]

Tim Moores wrote:HTTP is not confined to port 80 - it can run on any port that you care to configure.

[Rajesh Khan]

Paul Clapham wrote:

Tim Moores wrote:HTTP is not confined to port 80 - it can run on any port that you care to configure.

I understand that. Let me Further clarify my question

I wanted to know how does JAX-WS know that it is suposed to be transferred over HTTP even though port 87 is not an http port ?? Since http can be configured to run on any port , How does JVM map 87 to port 80 then ?? When i run my SOAP example so this question has two parts
1-how does JAX-WS know that it is suposed to be transferred over HTTP
2-Since http can be configured to run on any port , How does JVM map 87 to port 80

[Tim Moores]

What makes you think that there's any mapping going on? If you access port 87, and that's configured for HTTP, then that's where the traffic goes. Not port 80.

JAX-WS is a SOAP-over-HTTP API; it uses no other protocols.