SOAP Tutorial

SOAP Tutorial

SOAP is an open-standard, XML-based messaging protocol for exchanging information among computers. This is a brief tutorial that introduces the readers to the fundamentals of SOAP before moving on to explain its various elements, encoding, and how SOAP is transported.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to help them understand the basics of SOAP and how to implement it in practice.

Prerequisites

As a reader of this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of client/server environment, and knowledge of XML and XML namespace.

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