nope. i ain’t too proud to link to a msdn article on soap:
“This article takes you on a comprehensive tour of Object RPC technology to help you understand the
foundations of SOAP and the ways it overcomes many of the limitations of existing technologies, including DCOM and CORBA. This is followed by a detailed treatment of the SOAP encoding rules with a focus on how SOAP maps onto existing ORPC concepts. ”
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