what is soap

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what is soap

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SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.

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 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 can call a program in another computer and pass it information. It also specifies how the called program can return a response.

SOAP was developed by Microsoft, DevelopMentor, and Userland Software and has been proposed as a standard interface to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It is somewhat similar to the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), a protocol that is part of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). Sun Microsystems' Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is a similar client/server interprogram protocol between programs written in Java.

An advantage of SOAP is that program calls are much more likely to get through firewall servers that screen out requests other than those for known applications (through the designated port mechanism). Since HTTP requests are usually allowed through firewalls, programs using SOAP to communicate can be sure that they can communicate with programs anywhere.

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Edited by: Runal Singh on Apr 21, 2008 12:57 PM

[ak_upadhyay]

Hi,

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Bindings

As the cornerstone of Web services technology which is commonly used to implement SAP's Enterprise SOA, SOAP is an internet-based lightweight protocol for exchanging XML messages in a distributed environment. It provides a mechanism for packaging and un-packaging XML messages, and can potentially be used in combination with a variety of transport protocols such as HTTP for message transfer.

SOAP also provides an extensible framework that can incorporate advanced features such as secure and reliable messaging. SOAP is one of the messaging protocols supported by SAP NetWeaver.

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http://www.w3schools.com/SOAP/soap_intro.asp

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AK

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Hi,

SAP SOAP Client is a graphical tool that enables the sending of ad hoc SOAP requests to any http(s) URLs. It is a convenient developer tool for testing and debugging the Web Services exposed by any http(s) server.

In addition to visual send and receive functions, SOAP Client supports:

Save and load SOAP requests from .xml files

https with mutual authentication using X509 certificates

Set of sample, ready to use UDDI v3 SOAP requests

SCC14N xml canonicalization and XML digital signature generation, for specific use against UDDI v3 compliant servers

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hi,

SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.

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 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 can call a program in another computer and pass it information. It also specifies how the called program can return a response.

SOAP was developed by Microsoft, DevelopMentor, and Userland Software and has been proposed as a standard interface to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It is somewhat similar to the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), a protocol that is part of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). Sun Microsystems' Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is a similar client/server interprogram protocol between programs written in Java.

An advantage of SOAP is that program calls are much more likely to get through firewall servers that screen out requests other than those for known applications (through the designated port mechanism). Since HTTP requests are usually allowed through firewalls, programs using SOAP to communicate can be sure that they can communicate with programs anywhere.

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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Bindings

As the cornerstone of Web services technology which is commonly used to implement SAP's Enterprise SOA, SOAP is an internet-based lightweight protocol for exchanging XML messages in a distributed environment. It provides a mechanism for packaging and un-packaging XML messages, and can potentially be used in combination with a variety of transport protocols such as HTTP for message transfer.

SOAP also provides an extensible framework that can incorporate advanced features such as secure and reliable messaging. SOAP is one of the messaging protocols supported by SAP NetWeaver.

[Former Member]

Hi,

could someone help me to configure SOAP in a ABAP stack system to send/recieve XML files from external system into ECC 6 ABAP system.

we configured web service, virtual interface, web service definition and releasing to SOAP.

please sugeest for the final preparations to be done.

Thanks,

Ravi

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