SOAP's selling point is its simplicity, Marchal says. Because the new protocol builds on familiar technologies, in particular the web server and XML, it's relatively easy for developers to design and deploy SOAP servers. SOAP's selling point is its simplicity, Marchal says. Because the new protocol builds on familiar technologies, in particular the Web server and XML, it's relatively easy for developers to design and deploy SOAP servers.
SOAP draws from two distinct environments.
Built on HTTP and XML, SOAP aims to be as simple as the Web. I think that the major benefit of adopting SOAP is that it builds on a Web server. Therefore, to understand SOAP, one needs to start with Web servers. They are optimized to process requests efficiently. SOAP is an attempt to turn these Web servers into object servers.