SOAP Web Services Tutorial: Simple Object Access Protocol

What is SOAP?

SOAP is an XML-based protocol for accessing web services over HTTP. It has some specification which could be used across all applications.

SOAP is known as the Simple Object Access Protocol, but in later times was just shortened to SOAP v1.2. SOAP is a protocol or in other words is a definition of how web services talk to each other or talk to client applications that invoke them.

SOAP was developed as an intermediate language so that applications built on various programming languages could talk easily to each other and avoid the extreme development effort.

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