it is intended for accessing remote components or web services on the net through open protocols such as HTTP.
As I understood it, soap is a protocal built for accessing remote components via XML transmissions... but yeah, this is what you'll need to look at J4U.

Ms produce a soap toolkit here which I guess would have some samples with it for you to look at, otherwise here's the Ms soap development page: http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri....entid=28000523