Moving to XML

A bit about the other bits [vi]: SOAP

• Simple Object Access Protocol
• A vocabulary for communicating with software agents in a heterogenous network
  • Using HTTP as transport
• Not actually very simple...
  • But this is an inherently difficult area
  • Software toolkits (such as Apache Soap) will make this easier to deploy

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