Chapter 5. Introduction to SOAP


The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is the basis for the W3C design for web services. The specifications that make up SOAP cover the expression of data, what to require for communication, and how to link messages with communication layers . When using toolkits (introduced in Chapter 6), it is often not necessary to know more than just the basic elements of SOAP. But the more thorough your understanding, the easier you can develop better, more efficient applications.

This chapter introduces the basic parts of SOAP, and illustrates how they work together to create a platform for distributed application development. The focus of this chapter is the XML that implements SOAP requests and responses and how the SOAP specification is built from other XML technologies, such as XML Schema. Later chapters build SOAP-enabled applications with toolkits, but to make full use of the toolkits, you must know the constraints of the SOAP protocol that they implement.



Programming Web Services with Perl
Programming Web Services with Perl
ISBN: 0596002068
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 123

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