So, Actually SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol is a Misnomer, Its actually Data Exchange Format specification
HTTP is used because its not blocked traffic.
When Webservice is getting invoked, Its Like HTTP(HTML) traffic is going, Though Under the covers SOAP Payload is delivered which being XML is understood Well by .NET or Java Client.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.