The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

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The caller might receive the response in a mere millisecond or in a few seconds. Regardless of the application latency, the caller cannot move forward to the next task until the response is received.