This is a four part series on how to use SOAP with Visual Age and WebSphere. All lot of this articles just show how to install and configure the SOAP engine with VAJ/WAS. Part 2 will be useful to anybody using SOAP regardless of which server you're using as it shows how to write the server adapter code for binding SOAP to session beans. Part 3 gets SSL working and Part 4 will get certificate based authentication working.