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What is SOAP?
- SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It is a messaging protocol specification used for exchanging structured information in web services, primarily over HTTP/HTTPS, but it can also be used over other protocols such as SMTP.
History of SOAP
SOAP was developed by Microsoft, IBM, and other major companies in the late 1990s, with the first version of SOAP published as a W3C Note in 1999.