KD SOAP

A tool for creating client applications for web services

KD SOAP makes it possible to interact with application APIs that can be exported as SOAP objects. The web service then provides a machine-accessible interface to its functionality via HTTP. The remote method calls are handled in accordance with the SOAP standard, which describes method calls, their parameters and return values as XML documents.

KD SOAP is also a tool for creating web service server implementations. It makes it possible to export application APIs as SOAP objects. Web service client applications can then access these via HTTP. The KD SOAP server module contains all required functionality, allowing web service deployment without the need for an external web server.

Why KD Soap

Applications are infinitely more useful when they can access web services to retrieve and exchange information, and communicate between applications.

Today’s applications communicate using Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) between objects like DCOM and CORBA. But RPC presents compatibility and security problems and often, firewalls and proxy servers block this kind of traffic altogether.

SOAP is a simple XML-based protocol that lets applications exchange information over HTTP. SOAP and web service applications provide another layer of abstraction as a way to ease communication between applications running on different operating systems, using different technologies and programming languages. And it lets you get around those firewalls.

KD SOAP is used by a variety of programs for a variety of different purposes – for example, an application can use KD SOAP to access data from a CRM system such as SugarCRM or Salesforce.