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What is SOAP?
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What is SOAP?
SOAP is an XML-based protocol for exchanging information between computers. Although SOAP can be used in a variety of messaging systems and can be delivered via a variety of transport protocols, the main focus of SOAP is Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) transported via HTTP. Like XML-RPC, SOAP is platform independent, and therefore enables diverse applications to communicate with one another.
SOAP is a standard (which means that everyone will do things differently) that allows you to describe such a "remote" function call, and the way you would return the results. So what you would do is to put your Stock Quote function in an application that's somehow accessible over a network (an ISAPI app on your web server, for instance) and it would get calls that are "SOAP formatted". You would then validate the inputs, run your function and return the results in another SOAP formatted packet. And this can be done even over HTTP, so you don't have to open a few dozen ports on your firewall.
SOAP is a simple XML-based protocol to let applications exchange information over HTTP.
Soap, in its current form, is a method for RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) over a network. (Yes, it is also used a way to transfer documents around as XML
SOAP allows you to get around firewalls
SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP is a communication protocol
SOAP is for communication between applications
SOAP is a format for sending messages
SOAP is designed to communicate via Internet
SOAP is platform independent
SOAP is language independent
SOAP is based on XML
SOAP is simple and extensible
SOAP allows you to get around firewalls
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