IdooXoap is a toolkit for communicating via SOAP that uses SOAP Contract Language (SCL) or service descriptions.

This tutorial shows Flash developers how to make SOAP calls from Flash to build an interactive thin client Web application.

Simon Fell has released a new version, 1.1, of pocketSOAP, his SOAP implementation for Win32 and WinCE platforms. The new version adds many new features, including section 5 support, a completely pluggable [de]serialization model, headers, correct handling of the root attribute, single pass streaming parsing and a HTTP transport with support for SSL, cookies, proxy servers, and authentication.

Business information exchange made easy: Providing easy access to NonStop TS/MP services on the NonStop server

This chapter describes a SOAP example

HTTP communicates over TCP/IP. An HTTP client connects to an HTTP server using TCP. After establishing a connection, the client can send an HTTP request message to the server:

This chapter describes the SOAP Body element

The last time ZSI was covered in this column, it was version 1.2. ZSI has enjoyed a recent spate of activity including the contributions for other developers besides the lead Rich Salz. It is now in version 1.4.1 and has added some WSDL support. Uche Ogbuji and Scott Archer take a look at these new developments and also discover a third-party wrapper option for ZSI.

SOAP intro and web services

A really quick SOAP demo that should take you no more than 10 minutes

In this article we will explore the options that you have when you want to add security to your web services

This site helps you understand SOAP from a conceptual standpoint and helps you implement the concepts using Apache SOAP on the server side and with various packages and languages on the client side

This document draws a list of testable assertions found in the SOAP Version 1.2 specification, and provides a set of tests in order to show whether the assertion is implemented in a SOAP processor.

The Apache Cocoon framework excels at processing and manipulating XML documents, which makes it an easy and ideal platform for SOAP services. All the necessary components exist in the standard Cocoon release, except for one. This article introduces the XmlHttpTransformer, a component which allows mid-pipeline Cocoon elements to operate as SOAP clients retrieving information from external services. Two simple examples are presented with source code available.

With the mobile phone industry reporting better than expected sales, and news that, by the end of this year, smart phones are expected to outsell hand-held computers, it should come as no surprise that wireless application development is on the rise. Sun recently announced that by the end of 2004 there may well be more than 200,000,000 Java-enabled mobile handsets.

SOAP is an XML-based protocol that lets you activate an application, or even an individual object or method within an application, across the Internet. SOAP could revolutionize the whole process of developing Web applications

As you've learned from Parts 1 and 2 of this four-part series on SOAP, creating SOAP services is easy. In Part 3, Tarak Modi shows you an even simpler way to create SOAP services using Apache SOAP and JavaScript.

Microsoft wants XML and Windows to be the foundation for faster, easier Web development. You can judge their success with this preview of their new SOAP Toolkit