rv20 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 As far as i can see it is similar to AJAX ? BUt it can communicate with web services, so i guess a web services is an exe?? Does anyone have an advanced soap example? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/159682-what-is-soap-used-for/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/159682-what-is-soap-used-for/#findComment-842371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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