For a very clear and concise intro to SOAP messaging, see http://www.soapware.org/bdg -A good resource is a 2006 Condor Week Powerpoint presentation that gives an overview using the SOAP interface and some code snippets in Java: +A good resource is a 2006 Condor Week Powerpoint presentation that gives an overview using Condor's SOAP interface and some code snippets in Java: {link: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2006/presentations/farrellee_tannenba_APIs.ppt} Barebones netcat example: (assumes somehost.example.com:9618 is your soap-enabled collector)