Description: Have you ever wanted to roll your own Napster? J.P. Morgenthal, CTO of Akimbo, a real-time communications software provider, explained the basics of doing so in his class covering the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) to expose and invoke methods on remote machines. Unfortunately, Morgenthal was not able to fully execute the examples he had planned to show, because his machine was misconfigured.