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State Business reasons for using SOAP ?

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State Business reasons for using SOAP ?
posted Dec 9, 2013 by anonymous

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SOAP is a mean of communication among different kinds of technologies and platforms also it has following (business/technical reasons) advantages -
~Using SOAP over HTTP allows for easier communication through proxies and firewalls than previous remote execution technology.
~SOAP is versatile enough to allow for the use of different transport protocols. The standard stacks use HTTP as a transport protocol but other protocols are also usable (e.g. SMTP).
~SOAP is platform independent.
~SOAP is language independent.
~SOAP is simple and extensible.

answer Dec 21, 2013 by Vikas Upadhyay
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