title: Soap webservice request vs HTTP POST request?
body: <p>I am coming from servlet/web application world and started learning web services(SOAP based).  I have gone through some of the webservice 
  tutorials. I am trying to draw the parallel between normal http request and webservice request. Here are my observations ;-</p>
  
  <p>1)Both are HTTP request. Webservice is a also post request which contains soap envelope as request body. Soap envelope
  is just a normal xml which contains the data </p>
  
  <p>2)java Stub internally marshal the XML , creates HTTP request  and send it to consumer</p>
  
  <p>3)Servlet at consumer side intercpets that request and unrmashal it to java object and send it to corresponding service.</p>
  
  <p>Is my observation correct ? I know there may be other complexities but i tried to put the comparison in simple manner.</p>