Developing a Cross-Platform Web Service using SOAP

Abstract

In this paper, the proposed system can give service over different platform. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is an application of the XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) specification. It relies heavily on XML standards, like XML Schema and XML Namespaces for its definition and function. XML messaging is where applications exchange information using XML documents. It provides a flexible way for applications to communicate, and forms the basis of SOAP. All SOAP messages are encoded using XML. The proposed system demonstrated the comparison of the implementation of SOAP web services under different platforms (PHP and ASP), and how to request data from web server which is implemented on Microsoft Platform and show that requested data on the web application which is implemented with Open Source Platform.