Web Services Resource Center: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995800.aspx

Tutorial: "Understanding SOAP," by Aaron Skonnard. Topics include SOAP versions, messaging framework, extensibility, processing model, protocol bindings, HTTP binding, RPC and encoding and SOAP styles.

Perl ItemSearch SOAP Sample

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=18&categoryID=14

Perl ItemSearch SOAP sample retrieves Amazon book information based on a keyword search.

gSOAP Toolkit

http://gsoap2.sourceforge.net/

Download the gSOAP toolkit—a cross-platform development environment for C/C++ SOAP/XML Web services.

Apache Axis Implemenatation of SOAP

http://ws.apache.org/axis/index.html

Apache Axis is an implementation of the SOAP. Check out the FAQs, wiki, news and more.

Documentation on SOAP Messages

http://www.w3.org/TR/soap

Provides extensive documentation on SOAP messages, using SOAP with HTTP and SOAP security issues.

Tutorial: The Argument Against SOAP Encoding

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/understanding/webservicebasics/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsoap/html/argsoape.asp

Tutorial: "The Argument Against SOAP Encoding," by Tim Ewald. Discusses the evolution of SOAP and Web services and why SOAP encoding is not in the future of Web services.

Tutorial: RPC/Literal and Freedom of Choice

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/understanding/webservicebasics/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/rpc_literal.asp

Tutorial: "RPC/Literal and Freedom of Choice," by Yasser Shohoud. Discusses RPC and messaging—programming models for Web services. Topics include SOAP message formats, describing SOAP message formats, converting RPC/literal to Document/literal and WS-I basic profile.

Webcast: SOAP—Service-Oriented Architecture and Pr

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20030902soapdb/manifest.xml

Webcast: "SOAP—Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming, Pt. 2," by Don Box, discusses the conjoining of software components and services.

Webcast: SOAP—Service-Oriented Architecture and Pr

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20030827soapdb/manifest.xml

Webcast: "SOAP—Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming, Pt. 1," by Don Box.

Tutorial: XML Web Services Basics

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/understanding/webservicebasics/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/webservbasics.asp

Tutorial: "XML Web Services Basics," by Roger Wolter of Microsoft. Provides an introduction to Web services and discusses SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and more.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Primer

http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part0/

W3C Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Primer provides an introduction to SOAP and its features.

SOAP Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP

SOAP wiki.