difference between the soap and http

[Former Member]

Hello,

SOAP and HTTP both are used for wsdl. Can you give any special cases going for SOAP instead of HTTP.

Thank you

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

Both these are very broad terms.

With WebService, SOAP messages can be send only through HTTP.

Web Services can talk only with SOAP messages.

Its very hard to code and generate SOAP message(Envelope header,body). So SOAP adapter automatically generate these messages and also capable of receiving SOAP messages.

If you are quite GOOD in XML parsing and you have in depth idea of generating SOAP messages, you can create it manually(through coding) and send it through HTTP.

In short, SOAP hides all the complexities to generate SOAP message.

Regards,

Piyush