What are the steps involved in accessing a web service?

These are the steps involved in accessing a web service:

  1. Client application bundled the information and into a SOAP message.
  2. SOAP message sends to the server as a body of Hyper-Text markup language using POST method.
  3. Web service unpacks the SOAP message and converts it into a command understandable by the application.
  4. Application processes the information and in turn bundled the info and send it back to the client as a SOAP message.
  5. A Client then unpacks the SOAP message to obtain the results.