SOAP
Like every other distributed computing platform, the Web services platform has also settled on a standard, well-known protocol for communication between distributed components of a system. For CORBA, the protocol was IIOP; for RMI, first JRMP and later IIOP; in Microsoft environments, DCOM.
For Web service architectures, the de facto standard for the basic protocol for communication between two parties is the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Because SOAP is the basic messaging protocol for Web services, other specifications build on top of the SOAP specification or have “bindings” to it. In this chapter, we discuss the role SOAP plays in Web services and how service nodes process SOAP messages. At the end of the chapter, ...
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