SOAP
SOAP was originally an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol. That stood well through version 1.1 of the protocol itself. Many companies contributed to the wording in that specification—IBM, Microsoft, DevelopMentor, Ariba, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, Commerce One, IONA, Lotus, and SAP AG. Soon after that release, Web Service adoption began in earnest. More and more people saw that something originally developed for simple object access and remote procedure calls could be used as a general purpose messaging system. Using SOAP, you can exchange any data that can be expressed in XML.
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At the time of this writing, SOAP v1.2 standardization is nearing completion as the specification moves through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SOAP ...
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