Abstract
This chapter discusses Web Services, along with their related technologies, protocols, and standards, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and the XML Schema Definition (XSD) standard. The chapter examines the role of Web Services and how messages are passed between servers and data sources. Simple Web Services as well as Web Services (consumers) using the .NET Framework were created and VS.NET Beta 2 to show how the Web Service messaging infrastructure works and how it can be used transparently to the developer. The power of Web Services is due to its foundation in nonproprietary protocols and standards. Web Services would not be as useful if it were not built on XML for defining data and structure, XSD for defining structure, SOAP for defining a messaging transport mechanism over the well-established HTTP, WSDL for defining method interfaces in XML, Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, and DISCO, the Web Service discovery description document.
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