A Brief History of SOAP
An insider's view of the last three years of SOAP's development, its relationship
with W3C XML Schema, and an assessment of where XML protocols should go next.
Don Box
Don Box is a co-founder of DevelopMentor, a component software think tank that
educates the software industry in COM, Java, and XML development practices. Don wrote
the Addison-Wesley book Essential COM, and co-authored the follow-up title, Effective
COM, also from Addison-Wesley. Don also recently finished Essential XML, which is
now in
publication. Don writes the COM column for MSJ and is a contributing editor for MSJ
and
Microsoft Internet Developer.
Articles by this author
Inside SOAP
A technical introduction to SOAP, an XML-over-HTTP remote procedure protocol.
SOAP was recently submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft.