SOAP 1.2 (XML Protocol): Transmitting XML Data

• Traditional view on the Web is human-computer interaction
• But... the web is also about computer-computer interaction!
  • Search engines
  • Distributed transactions
  • Remote services
  • Computational grids
  • etc.
• Data (XML data) has to be transferred
  • From one site to the other
  • From one program to the other

XMLP: how would you tranfer XML data through the web?

First building block for a more general Web Services architecture