IBM has donated their SOAP code to the Apache XML
Project, hoping to speed adoption of the new XML
protocol.
Over recent weeks, IBM has been by far the most
aggressive developer of public SOAP technology, adding an
experimental
technology for describing network services provided by SOAP
servers.
In contrast, developers are still awaiting the release
of Microsoft's SOAP toolkit, touted for release 30 May, but
as yet unavailable.
It is expected that Sun Microsystems may donate
programmer time to the IBM SOAP toolkit now it has become
part of the Apache XML Project.