Table 1. Summary of sample application Web services
| Retailer | Warehouse | Warehouse Callback | Manufacturer | Logging Facility | Configurator | |
| Usage Scenario | Request/Response | Request/Response | Basic Callback; Request/Response | Basic Callback; Request/Response | One-way; Request/Response | Request/Response |
| Message Style | RPC/literal | RPC/literal | Doc/literal | Doc/literal | Doc/literal | Doc/literal |
| Header Usage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Data Types | nonnegative Integer, decimal, string, integer, normalizedString, NMTOKEN, anyURI | normalizedString, nonnegative Integer, unsignedShort, boolean, NMTOKEN, anyURI, string | nonnegative Integer, unsignedShort, float, string, normalizedString, NMTOKEN, anyURI | string, float, normalizedString, nonnegative Integer, unsignedShort, NMTOKEN | string, dateTime, NMTOKEN | boolean, string, NMTOKEN, anyURI |
| Attribute Usage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| SOAP Action | Empty string | WSDL tns | None | None | Empty string | WSDL tns + operation |
| Naming Convention | Mixed | Start with upper case | Mixed | Mixed | Start with upper case | Start with lower case |