The Simple Object Access Protocol is a standard by the [web consortium] which describes how processes can communicate by exchanging XML data. |
The Simple Object Access Protocol is a standard by the [web consortium] which describes how objects which may be in different processes can communicate by exchanging XML data. In contrast to CORBA? and DCOM? which are binary standards SOAP uses plain text data which makes debugging and maintaining distributed systems easier. |
Reference: [XML protocol activity]