> I've been trying to understand how to incorporate SOAP into our > architecture. I can see many benefits to using SOAP RPC as a platform > neutral RPC mechanism. > > But we have some use cases that are just an upload of xml data. Batch > processing with an xml return of the status of the batch. > > What are the advantages of using SOAP messaging instead of a simple > POST of xml to a servlet? >
IMHO, SOAP is more to Access Protocol then simply transferring XML data to a remove site. You use SOAP access a remote object and to get the return value of that object. Now coincidently it uses XML as to describe it. SOAP also define the standard of which it focus on interoperability between difference boxes running difference application, hence XML is used again. So comparing SOAP and posting XML data to a servlet is not quite right as they server different purpose. Regards, Victor
