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Im not sure if SOAP is supported. but I do know you can interface with web services via XML-RPC on the iPhone.  The Wordpress application uses this functionality.  I will have a tutorial on this in the coming months.

rawnaveen said:

Hi Brandon,

      Got to know that there are some private frame works in iphone simulator.

    So, is there CoreServices framework present that I can use to access SOAP based web services?

Thanks

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Hi Rawnaveen,

   Yes, you can consume SOAP services using a web client on the iPhone.  It is entirely javascript-oriented using the XMLHttpRequest object.  There are several libraries out there that will work and I'm currently doing it for an application that I'm writing for my current employer. 

   I found a library called soapclient.js that actually creates all the code to request and then return the XML for the soap request.  I was debating writing one myself, but this is a great shortcut and seems to be working fine at this point. 

   I'm using a setInterval call as well so that I can call the web service periodically while the web-app is running to update the local data store that I'm using on the iPhone (using SQLite for that).  Given that there are no remote connection to DB capabilities on the iPhone (at least not that I've found yet), this seemed like a good alternative.

   Hope that helps.