Summary
This chapter's goal was to introduce you to the SOAP protocol. It began with a discussion regarding why the SOAP protocol is so important to the Web Service and the Internet as a whole. It also addressed some of the advantages that SOAP has over other proprietary protocols.
The chapter then described the SOAP XML object model and the SOAP Envelope, Header, and Body, and it described how these objects support RPC. It also mentioned that the SOAP Envelope encapsulates the (optional) Header and Body, that the Header conveys metadata that is orthogonal to the method or header fault information, and that the Body contains the serialized method information itself or body fault information.
Much of the chapter dealt with the serialization of ...
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