✴ SOAP ( Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. Its purpose is to induce extensibility, neutrality and independence. It uses XML Information Set for its message format, and relies on application layer protocols, most often Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.✴

► SOAP allows processes running on disparate operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) to communicate using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Since Web protocols like HTTP are installed and running on all operating systems, SOAP allows clients to invoke web services and receive responses independent of language and platforms.✦

❰❰ This App has been prepared for beginners to help them understand the basics of SOAP and how to implement it in practice.❱❱

【Topics Covered in this App are Listed Below】

⇢ What is SOAP

⇢ Message Structure

⇢ Envelope

⇢ Header

⇢ Body

⇢ Fault

⇢ Encoding

⇢ Transport

⇢ Examples

⇢ Standards

⇢ What are Web Services?

⇢ What is Web Service?

⇢ Type of Web Service

⇢ WSDL (Web services description language)

⇢ Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)

⇢ Web service Architecture

⇢ Web service Characteristics

⇢ Advantages of SOAP

⇢ SOAP Communication Model.

⇢ RPC

⇢ Document

⇢ Why are Web Services Interesting?

⇢ B2B Services

⇢ B2C Services

⇢ Device to Device Services

⇢ What SOAP is NOT?

⇢ .CORBA

⇢ JAVA RMI

⇢ XML-RPC

⇢ Similarities and Differences of SOAP and XML-RPC

⇢ Strengths of SOAP

⇢ Weaknesses of SOAP