Chapter 7. Understanding SOAP

by Benoît Marchal

In This Chapter

Some technologies, such as MP3, serve a very specific and well-defined purpose. MP3 is an audio file format specific for audio information, whereas XML, on the other hand, is a versatile technology that is used in a variety of solutions, including audio, voice, and data.

One of those solutions is the specific file format for application integration that is associated with Web services. As you will see, there have been several proposals to use XML in the field of Web services, but one of the most promising standards is SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol. This chapter introduces you to the SOAP protocol. ...

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