Standardization status: XML-based messaging framework
- Started in September 1999 by the XML Protocol Working
Group
- Problem addressed: rich and extensible communication between agents
- Many proposals, using SOAP 1.1 as the basis
- More than 400 issues addressed
- Result: SOAP 1.2
- Protocol independent (based on XML Infoset, bindings)
- Powerful extension model (features)
- Lot of work on interoperability
- SOAP 1.2 is a Proposed
Recommendation (7 May 2003)
- Recommendation expected in the very near future
