What are advantages and disadvantages of SOAP?

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What are advantages and disadvantages of SOAP?

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The advantages are -

  1. Platform Independent.
  2. Language independent.
  3. Uses XML to send and receive messages.

The disadvantages are -

  1. It doesn’t have security facilities.
  2. SOAP clients does not have any type of reference to any kind of remote objects.
  3. It doesn’t support garbage collection mechanism.