Editing UserLand Software (section)

===SOAP===
{{main|SOAP}}

SOAP evolved from XML-RPC and was designed as an object-access protocol by [[Dave Winer]], [[Don Box]], Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein in 1998, with backing from [[Microsoft]], where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein worked at the time.

SOAP 1.1 was submitted to the [[W3C]] by [[Microsoft]], [[IBM]], and UserLand, amongst others, on May 9, 2000.<ref>{{cite web
| last = Userland
| title = UserLand Submits SOAP 1.1 to World Wide Web Consortium
| work = Userland
| access-date =March 7, 2009
| date = May 9, 2000
| url = http://www.userland.com/stories/storyReader$66
}}</ref> Version 1.2 of the proposed standard<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#intro SOAP Version 1.2 specification]</ref> became a [[W3C]] recommendation on June 24, 2003.