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Understanding APIs: SOAP

2019-10-24 swimlane Josh Rickard
In my previous post, I talked about the basics of REST (representable state transfer) APIs (application programming interfaces). If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend you read that post before continuing. In this post, we will be talking about the basics of simple object access protocol (SOAP) APIs, and we will primarily focus on a real SOAP service: Microsoft Exchange Web Services. RESTful APIs, which are the most commonly used APIs today, are powerful and provide a simple way to interact with a service or application via an exposed interface. Continue reading