Over the past couple of years, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has taken off at rocket speed. A solid understanding of SOAP concepts has become essential for any strong software professional, ...

Web services are here to stay, but if you are like most software developers, you worry about the plaintext SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages being exchanged over the Web. Web services ...

A new book, “Programming Web Services with SOAP,” by James Snell, Doug Tidwell, and Pavel Kulchenko, does a great job illustrating the Simple Object Access Protocol’s (SOAP) functionality, ...