Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0 is available for download from the Microsoft site. Microsoft says that while the first version of the toolkit was an "experimentation release" designed to introduce developers to Web services, SOAP Toolkit 2.0 provides the SOAP infrastructure needed to build production Web services.

SOAP provides a simple, extensible, and rich XML messaging framework for defining higher-level application protocols offering increased interoperability in distributed, heterogeneous environments.

You can use .Net classes to create a custom Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) encryption application to protect sensitive information sent from a client to a Web service (see "Encrypting SOAP Messages in .Net," XML & Web Services Magazine, October/November 2002). The application relies on public and private keys for the encryption and decryption of SOAP messages.

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As Web service technology matures, it's a good bet that schema-based document/literal SOAP messaging will gradually replace the rpc/encoded format used by most of today's fledgling Web services.

This sample application demonstrates how to authenticate users via username and password and digitally sign a SOAP message to ensure no tampering of the message occurred as it was sent to the Web Service. It includes a sample web.config file with the necessary WSDK entries, a sample class that implements the IPasswordProvider interface, a test proxy, and other code to show you this SOAP signing technique.

An powerpoint Overview of SOAP Attachments.

You know the old saying, that a picture is worth a thousand words? There's an awful lot of binary data out there, and XML is not going to replace it all or even a significant percentage.

This SOAP client tests a web service with a fixed attachment. The tool can send either MIME encoded attachments (SOAP with Attachments) or DIME ( Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) encoded attachments.

Apache Axis is the third generation of the Java-based Apache Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) toolkit.

This tutorial provides guidelines for exposing an existing Component Object Model (COM) object in a web service, illustrated by taking advantage of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technology to return ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) recordsets via two different methods.

With its recently released SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio, Microsoft has made the process of creating Windows-based SOAP Web Services easy for anybody familiar with the use of COM objects. There are, however, a few gotchas that you need to know about. This article, and the associated download, will provide you with the information you need to make it work.

Parasoft, leading provider of Automated Error Prevention (AEP) software solutions, announced today the release of SOAPtest 2.5, the most comprehensive Web services testing product available today, verifying every aspect of a Web service from WSDL validation, to client/server unit and functional testing, to performance testing.

Using the high level API to send and receive SOAP messages in MFC.

A SOAP client, using SOAP Toolkit 3.0.

C++ SOAP client for December 2000 release of MS SOAP Toolkit 1.0 using wire transfer technique.

This document gives steps involved in setting up Apache Tomcat and a simple Apache SOAP client for SSL communication. The aim of this document is to allow a person with minimum Java security to be able to set up SSL connection in a Apache SOAP/Tomcat Application. The steps you will carry out are:

The World Wide Web Consortium today released SOAP Version 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation. The Recommendation is four documents: the SOAP Version 1.2 Primer, SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework, SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts, and the SOAP Version 1.2 Assertions and Test Collection The World Wide Web Consortium today released SOAP Version 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation.

Neo writes "Saw this SOAP Learning Guide on the SearchWebServices.com website. It says, "This guide presents SOAP articles, tutorials, examples, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up your SOAP know-how quickly." They also have a BPEL Learning Guide."

Manila's SOAP interface, like its XML-RPC interface, allows external applications to automate Manila websites, to get and set messages, add to the home page, upload templates, and more.