Advantages and deficiences of the SOAP protocol i practical use

Environment of computer systems in organization evolved from monolithic systems to network of many smaller nodes connected in to distributed systems. These nodes need the ability to comprehensible communicate with each other in heterogeneous environment of infrastructure that is still changing and in context of permanent changes of requirements. This work identifies possible application of SOAP as a communication carrier in given environment. SOAP as a simple and very extensible protocol based upon XML promises wide application in solving this problem