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Hack:		Access SOAP Web Services from Excel
Subject:		SOAP Acronym
Date:		2005-08-10 05:51:41
From:		lboyle

The acronym "SOAP" stands for "Simple Object Access Protocol".

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SOAP Acronym
2005-11-02 09:06:44 MH [View]

If you read the specification for SOAP 1.2 you will find out that the author is correct about stating that SOAP no longer is an acronym and does not stand for "Simple Object Access Protocol" any longer!
While some members in the W3C committee may have not liked the acronym because it was coined by Microsoft (Did you know that IBM at one point suggested "Service-oriented Architecture Protocol"?) there was also a realization that SOAP is (a) not about accessing objects and (b) that it may not be that simple after all. So SOAP is just SOAP ...

SOAP Acronym
2006-10-18 11:01:02 pluck308 [View]

If its not an acronym it should be lowercase. Everyone implicitly agrees that it is an acronym. There is only a disagreement on what it stands for. Kind of like the acronym RAID.

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