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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.
This Wiki has a [SOAP] source letting you grab the wiki source of a webpage.
-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
+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
-[SOAP] ([IMHO])
is a bloated, over engineered mess
of a perfectly trivial concept. Sigh
.
+[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
.
+
+See also [AXIS]
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