Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SOAP is a simple XML-based protocol to let applications exchange information over HTTP.SOAP became a W3C Recommendation 24. June 2003.
It is important for application development to allow Internet communication between programs.
Today’s applications communicate using Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) between objects like DCOM and CORBA, but HTTP was not designed for this. RPC represents a compatibility and security problem; firewalls and proxy servers will normally block this kind of traffic.
A better way to communicate between applications is over HTTP, because HTTP is supported by all Internet browsers and servers. SOAP was created to accomplish this.
SOAP provides a way to communicate between applications running on different operating systems, with different technologies and programming languages.
FACTS ABOUT SOAP :
- 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 communicates 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.
- SOAP is a W3C recommendation.
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