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  • See More: News on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  • endpoint reference (EPR)

    An endpoint reference (EPR) is a combination of Web services (WS) elements that define the address for a resource in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) header... (Continued)  Definition

  • DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation)

    DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) is a communications specification that defines a format for attaching files to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages between application programs over the Internet.  Definition

  • SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

    SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system (such as Windows 2000) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system (such as Linux) by using the World Wide Web's H...  Definition

About Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system to communicate with a program in the same or another kind of an operating system by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange. Find SOAP basics, best practices and tutorials to help architects and developers with SOA and Web services projects in this topic section.