Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SOAP Version 1.2 is a
W3C Recommendation
toolkits exist to deploy applications as web services which use SOAP, generating WSDL automatically
a SOAP message is an XML document
root element is
Envelope
Envelope
has optional
Header
and mandatory
Body
elements as children
Body
contains elements corresponding to web service requests or responses (application specific)
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