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Newer page:	version 6	Last edited on Monday, December 6, 2004 2:50:45 am	by AristotlePagaltzis	Revert
Older page:	version 4	Last edited on Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:19:50 pm	by StuartYeates	Revert

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[Acronym] for __S__imple __O__bject __A__ccess __P__rotocol.

-A way for a computer program to call a function on a ~~website~~ . ~~The usual~~ [SOAP] ~~example~~ is ~~quering a web server at~~ [~~IBM~~ ] ~~which returns (delayed) stock quotes~~ .

+It's a way for a computer program to call a function on another computer, a concept known as [RPC]. Previously known [RPC] implementations have always been somewhat platform and/or language specific . [SOAP]'s answer is to use [XML ] for [Serialisation] in marshalling the call and [HTTP] to transport it. In other words: [SOAP] is a bloated, over engineered implementation of a perfectly trivial concept. Sigh .

-~~This Wiki has a~~ [SOAP] ~~source letting you grab the wiki source of~~ a ~~webpage~~ .

+The canonical [SOAP] service is a WebServer at [IBM] which returns (delayed) stock quotes .

-~~The~~ [WSDL] file describing this source is http://www.wlug.org.nz/phpwiki/soap.wsdl, a ~~webbrowser friendly URL is~~ http://www.xmethods.net/ve2/WSDLAnalyzer.po;?wsdlurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wlug.org.nz%2Fphpwiki%2Fsoap.wsdl

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-~~[SOAP~~ ] is often viewed as a bloated, over engineered implementation of a perfectly trivial concept, but it's the first generic, cross platform, language independent implementation of that concept to achieve widespread adoption, so maybe it needed to be .

+This Wiki has a [SOAP] source letting you grab the wiki source of a webpage. There's a [WSDL] file [ describing this source | http://www.wlug.org.nz/phpwiki/soap.wsdl] , and you can use [xmethods.net | http://www.xmethods.net/] to get [ a human readable version of it | http://www.xmethods.net/ve2/WSDLAnalyzer.po;?wsdlurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wlug.org.nz%2Fphpwiki%2Fsoap.wsdl].