Local SOAP Invocation??

I am attempting to come up with a local, XML based invocation method so
that software components written in different languages can communicate
(e.g a java component calling a C++ component).  As far as I understand,
SOAP has been designed and implemented to use an HTTP binding; I could
therefore presumably bind my components to different ports and essentially
loopback to my own machine.  However, this is clealy not an optimal
solution.  An alternative could be to bind SOAP to the interprocess
communication mechanism of the underlying operating system.  Has anyone
heard of anything along these lines?  Is it feasible?

My overall goal is to develop a generic inter-language communication
mechanism.  Can I perhaps have some thoughts if this is a good way to go??

Thanks a million!!

Andrew

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