Chapter 4. Building A Basic SOAP Client And Server
The name of the protocol, SOAP, expands to Simple Object Access Protocol. How simple is it really? The answer depends on your perspective. If your job involves using one of the many tools out there that use SOAP transparently, life should be problem free. On one machine, set up a server that can handle SOAP messages. On a client, install whatever libraries are needed to speak SOAP to the server. If things do not work, contact the vendors and find out why the two endpoints will not play nicely with each other. Chapter 7 takes a look at a number of these tools.
Your perspective changes quite a bit if you have to actually implement the SOAP part of a client or server. For one thing, you have to really ...
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