SOAP

SOAP is a lightweight communication protocol for web services based on XML. It is used to exchange structured and typed information between systems. SOAP allows you to invoke methods on remote machines without knowing specific details of the platform or software running on those machines.en in any programming model or can run on any platform. The SOAP message can be sent over any communication protocol, and the sender and receiver can be writt It is extensible. • It works across a number of standardized underlying network protocols. • It is independent of the underlying language or platform or programming model.