SOAP: Cross Platform Web Service Development Using XML

Acknowledgments

It is amazing what one little protocol can do for an individual's life. In early 2000, Tim Moore at Prentice Hall wrote to a number of technical authors, including me, and asked what we thought of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Never having heard of it, I went out and found the v0.9 specification and joined the SOAP mailing list hosted by DevelopMentor.^[1] After completing my initial survey, I could not shake the feeling that SOAP was about to become something very big and important. By May 2000, I was signed up to write the book you now hold.

Writing a book on a new technology helps you understand how experts are created. You learn to understand the various nuances of what you can do with the protocol. Other standards ...