SOAP - What's the point?

Question

I mean, really, what is the point of SOAP?

Web services have been around for a while, and for a while it seemed that the terms \'SOAP\' and \'Web service\' were largely

Answer 1

While doing some research to understand some of the answers here (especially John Saunders') I found this post http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple SOAP is more insane than I thought...