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

The point of WSDL was auto-discovery. The idea was that you wouldn't have to write client code, it would be auto-generated.

BTW. next step beyond WSDL are Semantic Web Services.