| A SOAP
Server is a server that hosts web
services and acts as a provider of services. It will typically
provide some kind of listening / speaking device (HTTP,
SMTP) and be able to parse SOAP messages. The server may also
have facilities for dishing the SOAP request off to another device,
usually an application server.
Some SOAP servers will also support object
serialization schemes other than the prescribed SOAP scheme,
such as XML-RPC.
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SOAP Servers also
will have varying levels of support for SOAP as well as WSDL.
Most SOAP Servers now aim to be compliant with the WS-Basic Profile.
The SOAP Server is the primary participant
in a Service Network. The Apache
AXIS product is an example of a SOAP Server.
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