Understanding SOAP: The Authoritative Solution

The simple object access protocol (SOAP) provides a mechanism for distributing objects over the Internet. This book explains the basics of SOAP and what the various aspects of the specification mean with respect to distributed object computing. Topics include the XML payload, data types, invoking remote methods, and the COM language binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kenn Scribner and Mark Stiver have considerable experience with distributed systems. Most recently they spent two years developing a commercial product that implemented a SOAP-like XML interface.

Kennard Scribner is a senior systems programmer with the world's largest supplier of information services for the legal industry. In addition, he is the founder and President of The EnduraSoft Corporation, a software company specializing in the creation of custom components. Kenn is the author of Sams Teach Yourself ATL Programming in 21 Days, and co-author of MFC Programming Unleashed.

Mark C. Stiver is a Senior Software Engineer and the Technical Lead for a product development group at a major data warehouse company. He has over ten years of experience working on a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and military software development projects. Most recently, Mark completed a two-year effort developing an n-tier, distributed product using XML as the base protocol to integrate Windows desktop, Windows NT Server, and UNIX applications.