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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, December 6, 2004 2:50:45 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | 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
+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].
-[SOAP
] ([IMHO]) is a bloated, over engineered mess of a perfectly trivial concept. Sigh
.
+See also
[AXIS
].
