Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol that is used for the exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. SOAP is an XML-based protocol with three components:

Services implemented using SOAP are often called Web services. The SOAP standard is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at WWW linkwww.w3c.org.

PRPC incorporates SOAP facilities from the Apache Software Foundation, including AXIS, an XML toolkit. See WWW linkhttp://xml.apache.org.

You can use the AXIS built-in monitor tool known as TCPMon to trace SOAP messages.

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