02/27/2002 The Apache SOAP Project is an open source Java implementation of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) v1.1. SOAP is a wire protocol that leverages HTTP or SMTP as its transport layer and XML as its data layer, to execute remote methods, known as SOAP services. The Apache implementation of SOAP provides two methods for invoking SOAP services: a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) model and a message-based model. The RPC method, which is the focus of this article, is a synchronous...
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