The Web as an application platform

• Since the web was invented ….

  • http://www.yyy.com/xxx?param1=val1¶m2=val2
  • The querystring or posted data could be used as parameters to remote procedure call invocation

• Unfortunately …

  • No real programming model, no object model, no inheritance, no structures, very low level

• But …

  • There is a huge commercial interest and technology is evolving very fast.
  • SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging model based on HTTP/XML

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