SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol .<br><br>SOAP is a lightweight XML based protocol . It is a standard for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.<br><br>SOAP 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.
