SOAP

SOAP is a XML-based protocol for exchanging data over a network. It used to stand for Simple Object Access Protocol, but since it was not all that simple and not in any meaningful way object oriented it has been, by consensus, retrospectively stripped of its acronym status. It is often proposed that it should now stand for Service Oriented Architecture Protocol, however this is only a little better, as Service Oriented Architectures require many other protocols than SOAP, and indeed can be built entirely without it.

SOAP is the basis of Web Services within Visual DataFlex.

A SOAP message is composed of an outer element known as the [Envelope