The SOAP XML Object Model
SOAP itself doesn't deal with objects. Frankly, the object in “simple object access protocol” lends itself merely to the formation of a catchy name. Actually, SOAP as destined for RPC purposes was designed to translate a method's parameters from its native binary form and carry those parameters as XML information to the remote server. There, a corresponding SOAP processor would pull the XML information and return it to its binary state for processing. Information that would associate the method with some object (C++, Java, SmallTalk, or whatever) would be metadata to SOAP and would have to be encoded separately from the method itself.
In a sense, SOAP does have an object model, however. SOAP is XML, as defined by an ...
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