Chapter 8. SOAP Basics
by Benoît Marchal
In This Chapter
In Chapter 7, “Understanding SOAP,” you learned about the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). SOAP offers RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) with XML and HTTP.
As you have seen, SOAP is not a monolith. On the contrary, it is designed in a highly modular fashion and you can use subsets of the standard such as the envelope to exchange XML documents. One example of using subsets is the ebXML transport, routing, and packaging specification that was introduced in Chapter 7.
In this chapter, you will learn more about using SOAP and, in particular, you will learn how to develop with SOAP. ...
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