“Soap” is made by a chemical reaction known as “saponification,” which occurs when mixing an acid with an alkali base. The main kinds of soap are glycerin soap, shaving soap, antibacterial soap, homemade soap, organic soap and natural soap.
SOAP was originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol and was created by a group of vendors from, amongst others, IBM, Lotus and Microsoft. It is a protocol specification which is used for trading structured information during the implementation of web services in computer networks. SOAP Protocol relies on Extensible Markup Language – or XML (a markup language that has been designed with the aim of storing, transporting and structuring data by outlining a set of rules which are to be used when encoding documents in format that is machine-readable as well as human-readable) for its message format and normally uses either Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) for negotiating messages and sending them.
So, what does all of this do then? Essentially, SOAP is a language that lets a program running in a particular operating system communicate with another program which is running in a different operating system over the internet. SOAP takes HTTP and XML and structures the practice of using them in order to create consistency across platforms.
If this still not making any sense, don’t worry. Think of it this way – with a wide variety of web and computing applications being used by large numbers of people who send information to one another. The various applications need to be able to communicate and translate the information received so that it can be used. While this can be done in any number of ways, SOAP makes the process easier by using existing and well known standard web formats like XML and HTTP.
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