SOAP 1.2 in a nutshell
- SOAP message:
- Envelope (XML document)
- Composed of a header and a body
- Processing model
- Sent from a sender to a receiver, possibly via
intermediaries
- Headers:
- Can be addressed to certain intermediaries
- Can be marked as mandatory
- Default data encoding provided, but others can be used.
- Can be transfered from one node to another any underlying
protocol (e.g. HTTP): SOAP binding
