Integrate Salesforce with SOAP UI Tool

Follow the instructions in the link mentioned above how to install Soap Tool on your system.

What are we going to learn in this Project.

Generate an Enterprise WSDL in Salesforce.
Creating a Project on SOAP API Tool (Attaching our Enterprise WSDL)
Obtaining the Session ID in SOAP API TOOL.(A handshake with Salesforce)
Using our generated server URL of Salesforce in SOAP Tool.
Using Standard WebService methods to hit Salesforce
Preparing our XML to send SOAP Tool.
Parsing the received XML and creating records in Salesforce.

The above looks like a lot of stuff but it is very simple and easy to integrate your own organization.

Yes! The essentials required in our project are above and we are going to help Radical team to achieve to integrate with Australian company's legacy book systems.

Let's treat SOAP API Tool as the legacy system of the Australian company. They would be providing us with an xml which we need to parse it at our end in salesforce.

Things to assume :

Legacy system = SOAP API TOOL. We ourselves obtain the session id and hit the salesforce standard webservice method to create records in the book object.

Terms to remember:

Session ID - unique piece of data to that is used in network communications.
XML - Extensible mark up language, which is both human readable and machine readable.