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SOAP, formerly known as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a messaging
standard. SOAP is very broad and general. Technically, it can supportrequest-response, as well as fire-and-forget communication. Theunderlying protocol is typically HTTP, but there’s nothing against usingmessage brokers. Or even good old SMTP. You know, the one for exchanginge-mails. The communication happens through XML messages. These messagesare well-defined and structured. XML schema is agreed upon before anycommunication.