Chapter 9. Working with Web Services

by Albert J. Saganich, Jr.

Web Services Concepts

Web services introduce a new high-level development paradigm known as service oriented architecture (SOA). SOA focuses on broader resolutions to problems that potentially encapsulate entire solutions into a single “service.” These services can then be combined in whatever way that's required to solve a problem. For example, rather than expose the various methods of a banking service, such as withdrawing and depositing, an SOA-based service might provide a single unified transfer service. A key component ...

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