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Introduction to SOAP...
Basic building block used to build Web Services
Function invocation protocol
Originally stood for “Simple Object Access Protocol”
- No longer the case
- SOAP is NOT about Objects!
- Unlike CORBA, it does not have an object model
SOAP simply a procedural call
SOAP is a stateless protocol
Notes:
SOAP is the most basic building block used to build Web Services. It is a function invocation protocol that uses XML to describe its data.
SOAP originally stood for Simple Object Access Protocol but this is no longer the case since the use of the term object was considered to be misleading.
SOAP is NOT about Objects! Unlike CORBA, SOAP does not have an object model but it is simply a procedural call.
SOAP is also a stateless protocol.