SOAP Strength

• No new technology: SOAP simply standardizes existing practice of using HTTP (and XML) as an application protocol

• No requirements on special runtime, no use of ORB, no traditional web server (e.g., Apache, IIS) required, no programming language implied, no programming model …

• SOAP is a minimal protocol for invoking methods on servers/services/components/objects

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