SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was introduced to the world in late 1999. Its purpose was to provide an RPC-like structure for managing distributed objects over the Internet. The original standard called for the use of HTTP as the transport protocol, and XML as the data structure. SOAP is the carrier…the pickup truck for moving objects serialized as XML across the Internet. SOAP is a lightweight, message-based protocol that is built on XML and Internet standards. Every SOAP message is a one-way transmission, but SOAP messages can be combined to implement patterns such as request/response.
Although it is out of the scope of this book to go into much detail about SOAP, I felt that a very brief introduction ...
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