Re: SOAP Question
For MS-Soap and Apache SOAP interoperability, check http://xml.apache.org/soap/docs/guide/interop.html. Hope this helps, Ram Sadasiv
Re: Jabber Transport?
There is such a thing as a Jabber transport; it is freely available and well documented at www.jabber.org. It is an extensible IM protocol based on XML messages, and as such is at least as suitable (if not more so) as SMTP for moving SOAP messages from point A to point B and back again. Ram