What are advantages and disadvantages of SOAP?

[hp-singh-53e2639c (Harjas Preet Singh)]

What are advantages and disadvantages of SOAP?

[anik-acharjee]

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.