SOAP - what is it?!

> I realised the conversation was going nowhere,
> however, instead of ignoring my response (as I intended you to when i deleted
> it) you chose to got into details

Just by-the-by, I'm not reading these messages via the web interface, so I
don't get updates like "message deleted". You asked what a "newsgroup
user" was before - I forgot to answer - the forums are available via three
mechanisms I know of:
- the main Adobe forums website
- Google groups
- NNTP feed to Usenet (news groups). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet.

I use the latter, because I really can't stand web UIs for forums (the
Adobe UI is bad enough; the Google one is even worse. IMO). However
because of this, I don't get to see things like article cancellations and
stuff like that because the Adobe forum software doesn't propagate them to
Usenet. I had no idea you had deleted the article; and had I done so, I
would have understood your intent, and not taken the time to reply (with
another tirade! ;-)

Sorry for the mix-up.

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Adam

> It's actually making me upset reading your response,

Well I'm sorry about that. Honestly.

Let's forget about all that previous carry-on, and focus on sorting out
your web service situation.

Where have you got to, and what's not working / not clear / etc / what do
you need help with?

I might be a grumpy old so-and-so, but I do like to help getting to the
bottom of things. In my own way (cough)...

?

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Adam

It's actually making me upset reading your response, I understand that it's easy to misinterpret text (emails, text messages) and I guess that's what i have done - you obviously never meant to attack me in the first place.

However, my response was accurate to how i felt on reading your first reply to me. I then deleted it because I realised the conversation was going nowhere, however, instead of ignoring my response (as I intended you to when i deleted it) you chose to got into details and write the essay above again attacking me - how was that necessary? Because you have to prove you were right? Perhaps thats why you enjoy using these forums so much.

my son has asked that question all his life.

First things first, did you type "SOAP" into Google and read the Wikipedia
article which is the first match? That explains what SOAP is. That might
help you refine your question.

Mikey also has you on the right track.


Editorial comment (and not specifically aimed at you, Rollerskatie, because
you're in good company):

To be honest, it beggars my belief that "doing a Google search" is not the
Very First Thing a person does when they don't understand a word or a term.
I don't mean specifically in the context of this current question, but just
in general. I personally would look up at least fifty (statistically
unsound value) things every day that had me thinking "I don't know what
that means". CFML stuff, CSS weirdness (all of today's googling was on CSS
because I'm crap at it, yet that's what I'm doing @ present), error
messages, words people in the office use that I'm not completely
comfortable with, that actor in that TV show we're talking about, which pub
to go to after work: *anything*.

Back to this issue: I'm not sure reading a Wikipedia article on SOAP will
solve your problem, Rollerskatie, but it will at least fine tune your
question a bit from "SOAP - what is it?!".

They're talking about web services. Have a look at the web services stuff
in Livedocs, and see if it makes sense, and come back with any questions
you have.

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Adam

Would this be Katie Atkinson??

As far as I can tell it's an XML thing which you consume as a web service via cfinvoke.

Mikey