Mention the differences between SOAP and other remote access techniques?

The following are the differences between SOAP and other remote web services such as DCOM, COBRA :

SOAP WEB SERVICES	OTHER REMOTE WEB SERVICES
SOAP is the acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol.	DCOM is the acronym for Distributed Component Object Model.
It is a platform for transportation of data and language independence.	DCOM or COBRA doesn’t provide language independence.
It is user-friendly and easy to handle.	Web services like DCOM or COBRA are complex to handle.
SOAP uses HTTP protocols and data uses XML formats.	DCOM and COBRA have their own binary formats for transporting data in complexity.
It is hard to maintain.	It is easy to maintain as compared with SOAP’s.