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what is SOAP?
Lesse if I can explain this in a sort of Layman's way
SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol, and OOP stands for Object Oriented Programming.
These days most programming languages use "objects". An object is anything that has a bunch of "properties". Just like if you look at your coffee cup, a property of it might be that it's color is white, another property might be that it's 5 inches tall, another property might be that it's half full, etc., all of these "properties" make up the "object" of a coffee cup.
So in programming terms, a Button you click in a window might have the properties, height, width, color, and what the label on it says.
SOAP is used in web services to transfer info like that back and forth in XML format, which can contain the information about those objects, and be used to populate the properties of the objects.