what is S.O.A.P.?anyone can give an example.?

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anonymous · Answer

It stands for Simple Object Access Protocol and is used to setup structured web services to programs. It allows you to write a client program in any language that supports networking to send commands to a web based program. There are programs that let you consume a definition file(.wsdl) and get a programming API to access the services. Netbeans has the ability to consume then and I have used jaxws-ri from Sun to do the same. There is also a nice testing utility that is open source utility called soapui hosted on sourceforge that you can get to from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/ There is a free version adn a paid version. You can use this to inspect what the services are expecting.