Chapter 4. .NET Web Services and SOAP
IN THIS CHAPTER
As you learned in Chapter 1, “Web Service Fundamentals,” SOAP is a critical technological component in the .NET Web Service scheme. SOAP in general defines a mechanism for encoding information into an XML wrapper. For Web Services, SOAP gets a bit more specific when it facilitates the mappings between method signatures and the XML document.
The basic idea behind the use of the SOAP protocol, as it was originally envisioned, is to interpret a remote method's parameter values at runtime and stuff those values into an XML document. The XML data is then transported to the remote server using ...
Get Applied SOAP: Implementing .NET XML Web Services now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
