RE: [PHP] New buzz SOAP?

SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It's the XML version of RPC/RMI. It's actually a specification that describes how interfaces from different systems can communicate with each other. It's called an IDL (Interface Definition Language). This is going to be big because it is a very large part of the new Microsoft .NET strategy. In essence it will enable everyone and everything to talk together without worrying about hardware, software or OS's incompatibilities (well, that's the theory, anyway). Of course, I'm sure that MS will make their own non-open extensions and tie everyone into their World<grin>. The best thing about SOAP is the sense of humour of the designers. Part of the SOAP toolkit is called the Remote Object Proxy Engine, this is responsible for the consumption of dispatching of SOAP messages. So, you get SOAP on a ROPE! -----Original Message----- From: Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay" [mailto:jay.paulson@viatel.com] Sent: 03 April 2001 17:29 To: 'Stewart Taylor'; 'Brandon Orther'; 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: [PHP] New buzz SOAP? Hello everyone- Here at work I'm hearing this new buzz word about SOAP and people are asking me if PHP can work with SOAP. Well first of all if any of you know the answer to this please let me know because I am clueless. Thanks, Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net