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What is soap used for?


rv20

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No you are on the wrong track. SOAP is a protocol for exchanging data. SOAP can be used to call web services (i.e RPC - Remote Procedure Call) however this is only one of its many uses.

 

A web service is not an exe at all. An example of a web service maybe a weather feed. I can send a request to the weather service server along with parameters for the required days, country, city, etc and a response is returned with data I require. Other popular web services are provided by Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc

 

Example of what a SOAP request and response may look like:

http://www.w3schools.com/SOAP/soap_example.asp

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