SOAP¶
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As Wikipedia notes, “… SOAP … is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages …” It’s nominally language-independent (and platform-independent, encoding-aware, transport-neutral, …).
Many Pythoneers are … reserved about the complexities of and incoherent design of SOAP; Rob Riggs rants for many when he writes “… they invented SOAP for brainwashing software architects.”
The page on WebServices says more.