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This document tries to be a small introduction to the Soap protocol and interface programming using the toolkit provided by the Apache project. This toolkit allows you to very easily program Soap communications using the Java language.

You should be familiar with Linux, java, client-server applications and public key cryptography.

Please, send me any corrections, comments or any other information about this document - Pablo. (email is at the beginning, after title)

1 Introduction to SOAP

SOAP, "Simple Object Access Protocol", is an XML based protocol that allows easy RPC over http connections making easier to reach hosts behind a firewall. On the other hand, as information arrives the server in text mode it is also easy to block Soap calls if needed by looking at http or Soap headers in the message.

It is possible to set up Soap to work with SSL to provide authentication to both client and server which makes the protocol very interesting to Business to Business (B2B) applications.