SOAP Protocol

[Visu]

What is SOAP?
How SOAP is working?
Why it is important in ASP.NET?

[BabuLives]

SOAP-Soap is Simple Object Access ProtoCol.

It can be called as a framework,provides xml format for data transfer
between applcation in network..Obviously because it is using XML format
it provides platform independent.

For Example Webservices use SOAP for accessing the webservice found in
internet..The webservices may be developed or running on any platform
even then it can be called from a windows platform.Not only in
Webservices it is also used in Remoting also..

The soap format is,

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:envelope>
<soap:header>
---
---
--
</soap:header>
<soap:body>
-----
----
--Has info in XML format which fn to call
----
----
</soap:body>
</soap:envelope>

Regards,
Satheesh

[BabuLives]

i have forget this important point..

A better way to communicate between applications is over HTTP, because
HTTP is supported by all Internet browsers and servers. SOAP was
created to accomplish this.

Regards,
Satheesh