| SOAP | The Simple Object Access Protocol is a protocol for exchanging information. |
Status
The SOAP specification has been submitted as a W3C working note and proposes the formation of a working group. The note is published at http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/.
SOAP is under development by a group of companies in the computing industry, spearheaded by Microsoft. The Microsoft Developer's Network SOAP page can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/soapspec.asp.
Description
SOAP is a lightweight, XML-based protocol for exchanging information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.
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