ALSO CALLED: S O A P and Simple Object Access Protocol DEFINITION: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system (such as Windows 2000) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system (such as Linux) by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer
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WHITE PAPER: Posted: 05 May 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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This white paper examines features of the EMC® Documentum® platform that enables its industry-leading enterprise content management capabilities to participate in a service oriented architecture (SOA).
SOAP DEFINITION (continued): … Protocol (HTTP)and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange. Since Web protocols are installed and available for use by all major operating system platforms, HTTP and XML provide an already at-hand solution to the problem of how programs running under different operating systems in a network can communicate with each other. SOAP specifies exactly how to encode an HTTP header and an XML file so that a program in one computer … SOAP definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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