How BizTalk and SOAP Work Together

BizTalk uses SOAP and other protocols to transfer documents between companies. You can also choose from Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) as transport protocols. The point is that SOAP is one of many available protocols at your disposal when you use BizTalk. This product gives you a choice of which protocol to use in a given situation.

BizTalk is an extensible architecture. You can create add-ons that enhance its performance and allow BizTalk to do more than it can out of the box. The extensible architecture means that vendors can add updates to the current SOAP support as the specification changes (an almost daily event). ...

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