The SOAP Opera Progresses – Helping XML to Rule the World
The SOAP Opera Progresses – Helping XML to Rule the World
-by Michael F. Reed
An important emerging standard in the web arena, known as SOAP (Simple
Object Access Protocol), originally developed by Microsoft, has achieved
a new milestone. Since IBM joined in support for the SOAP standard with
increased security, SOAP may replace DCOM, and possibly even CORBA
eventually. The W3C consortium has just released a new version, 1.2,
which will be widely accepted and adopted by vendors.
