Architect's Note
SOAP 1.1 is the most widely adopted version of the SOAP specification. However, SOAP 1.2 has now reached W3C recommendation status and thus SOAP 1.1 is now considered deprecated.
SOAP RPC is quick and easy, but may lead to applications with too tight a level of coupling. Exchanging larger documents is preferable, even if it means writing handler code to deal with them.
XML-Native applications should not use SOAP-RPC; they should use the XML vocabularies that they have already developed, and use those vocabularies as the basis of their communication via document-oriented SOAP.
Be prepared for a shift in the Web services architecture, and ensure your services can support “Web-friendly” access where appropriate.
Do not deploy a Web ...
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