SOAP !!

If you are the one involving web service/network programming or such a stuff. I believe you may ever heard the term "SOAP". What is SOAP? is my first question. After hanging out around the web, still, I am not understand what is it use for concretely. OK, let's borrow some word from our lovely Wikipedia

"SOAP is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer networks, normally using HTTP/HTTPS. SOAP forms the foundation layer of the web services protocol stack providing a basic messaging framework upon which abstract layers can be built."


Let's get a first look of SOAP's XML figure (courtesy of Sun Microsystems)

It is quite simple that SOAP is AKO XML message that the web service/client use to communicate each other.

On this step, I am just started to learn how to assemble data in to XML chunk. The next step is to write a client to request and decode that XML into readable information.