Java Glossary : SOAP

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SOAP

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol standard managed by W3C. Microsoft, IBM and Apache have all implemented it. SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that 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. Now you know. :-)

Perhaps it is just a stripped down CORBA or a language-agnostic RMI.

You can check out the following websites for more detail:

• Apache
• IBM
• Microsoft
• OReilly's comparison of IBM and Microsoft SOAP.
• W3C
• xmethods.org

Soap.org has nothing whatsoever to do with the SOAP protocol, neither does pg.com.

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