Description: Web services are built on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), a powerful protocol that enables cross-platform distributed computing and that most of the major development tool vendors have implemented. The SOAP specification\'s simple nature is a big reason for its broad acceptance, but its current version doesn\'t address some of the more difficult aspects of distributed computing, such as transaction coordination and security. SOAP\'s simplicity has helped increase its adoption rate, but that also means you must implement things not included in SOAP
