The Coded One

What is SOAP?

By merely looking at what SOAP stands for, we will already have an idea of what it is. So lets try to break it down:

• Simple – easy, non-complex
• Object – Let’s use the programming cliche:  “Everything is an object”
• Access – the right to obtain or make use of
• Protocol – A set of rules that lets computers agree how to communicate over the net

So what does this tell us? Soap is an easy way of getting or using objects across a network or commonly, the Internet.

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