SOAP is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks.
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11 Facts About SOAP
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SOAP allows developers to invoke processes running on different operating systems to authenticate, authorize, and communicate using Extensible Markup Language (XML).
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Since Web protocols like HTTP are installed and running on practically all operating systems, SOAP allows clients to invoke web services and receive responses independent of language and platforms.
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SOAP provides the Messaging Protocol layer of a web services protocol stack for web services.
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SOAP was designed as an object-access protocol and released as XML-RPC in June 1998 as part of Frontier 5.
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SOAP specification was maintained by the XML Protocol Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium until the group was closed 10 July 2009.
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SOAP originally stood for "Simple Object Access Protocol" but version 1.
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These different services, especially UDDI, have proved to be of far less interest, but an appreciation of them gives a complete understanding of the expected role of SOAP compared to how web services have actually evolved.
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SOAP message is an ordinary XML document containing the following elements:.
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SOAP has an advantage over DCOM that it is unaffected by security rights configured on the machines that require knowledge of both transmitting and receiving nodes.
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The concept of SOAP bindings allows for specific bindings for a specific application.
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