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There's a footnote in "Programming Ruby" (page 249) which more or less says it all:
SOAP once stood for Simple Object Access Protocol. When folks could no longer stand the irony, the acronym was dropped, and now SOAP is just a name.
"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"
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Re^2: Of SOAP and men, aka "It's perfectly simple" they say
by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 08, 2005 at 16:19 UTC
    Neither simple, nor object, unless you call anything you can access on the web an object. Discovering that SOAP has no support for OO programming was a big surprise to me.
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