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A generic technique whereby one application can connect over a network to a second application, invoke one of its functions, and receive the results of the call. Remote procedure calls (RPCs) are used in many distributed application frameworks, including CORBA, Distributed COM, Java RMI, SOAP, and XML-RPC.
Apache SOAP servlet that receives SOAP requests and routes them to the appropriate service classes for processing.