SOAP Basics
This section reviews the basics of SOAP. After reading this section, you will be able to find your way through common SOAP interactions. The next section zooms in on some of these topics and provides the missing details.
At the time of writing, SOAP is not an official W3C standard. Two somewhat incompatible versions of SOAP coexist:
SOAP 1.1 is defined in two W3C notes available from http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP and http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments.
SOAP 1.2 is available as a W3C working draft from http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1 and http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2. At the time of writing this version is still under development.
Note that SOAP 1.1 is not officially endorsed by W3C. It is available only on the W3C site as notes. ...
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