Korean slang profile
SOAP
soap
Protocol for exchanging structured XML messages
A message-exchange protocol specifying how distributed systems exchange structured information in XML form.
- Expanded form
- Simple Object Access ProtocolSimple Object Access Protocol
- Other spellings
- 솝
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
두 시스템이 SOAP 메시지로 정보를 교환했다.
The two systems exchanged information through SOAP messages.
02Documented history
- 2007The 2007 material introduced the spelling and usage context of “SOAP”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The checked 2007 abbreviation table explains it as an initial-letter name for Simple Object Access Protocol. The meaning of message exchange was also checked in W3C’s SOAP 1.2 document. Use earlier than the checked sources and the original creator have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The English expansion is the explanation in ETRI’s 2007 abbreviation table. It was not generalized as the current official full name of every SOAP version.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일OK 표준화 동향 — 전자통신동향분석 22권 6호, 84~95쪽 (한국전자통신연구원)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026
- SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer, Second Edition (W3C)Published Apr 27, 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026