Where to download SOAP?

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a@abc.com - 19 May 2007 11:44 GMT

This is the only place I can find to download SOAP & every single link
is broken http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/soap/

Is there somewhere else I can get it?

thanks (sorry if I've missed anything obvious but but just starting
with SOAP!)

harry

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harry - 19 May 2007 12:20 GMT

has Apache SOAP been totally scrapped? - can't find anywhere to download it!

is there any alternative?

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Arne Vajhøj - 19 May 2007 14:22 GMT

> has Apache SOAP been totally scrapped? - can't find anywhere to download it!

I could find it in:
http://archive.apache.org/dist/ws/soap/version-2.3.1/

But as already stated: find something newer !

Arne

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Philipp Leitner - 19 May 2007 13:49 GMT

yes ... for a start you are missing that SOAP is just a communication
protocol - trying to download 'SOAP' is like trying to download HTTP,
TCP or IMAP...

What you probably want is a SOAP stack, i.e. a library that allows you
to set up a or communicate with a SOAP service. In that case you want
to look for Axis, Axis2, XFire, WSIF or a almost unlimited number of
other OSS projects (and this is only Java!).

But before you go into coding with any of them I would recommend some
further reading on the basics of Web Services.

/philipp

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Arne Vajhøj - 19 May 2007 14:20 GMT

> yes ... for a start you are missing that SOAP is just a communication
> protocol - trying to download 'SOAP' is like trying to download HTTP,
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> to look for Axis, Axis2, XFire, WSIF or a almost unlimited number of
> other OSS projects (and this is only Java!).

The link he gave was to download the Apache SOAP product, which
was Apache's SOAP implementation before Axis.

Arne

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Arne Vajhøj - 19 May 2007 14:19 GMT

> This is the only place I can find to download SOAP & every single link
> is broken http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/soap/
>
> Is there somewhere else I can get it?

They seem to have removed it.

Apache SOAP has been replaced by Apache Axis.

Apache Axis is in the process of being replaced
by Apache Axis2.

A web service toolkit from 2001-2003 is rather useless today.

Arne

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