Dura Soft
.NET-69
SOAP
•A well-formed XML may be used as a wire protocol
•XML documents can be easily transported to remote systems
–Most convenient to use HTTP (walks through firewall)
–Other mechanisms like SMTP
•Mechanism is addressed by SOAP
–Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
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•SOAP relies on the XML schema definition and elements
–It uses the schema definition
–The elements are used to communicate information
–attributes are used to communicate SOAP specific meta-information