Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Conclusion

Web services are the next stage of evolution for e-business and are the result of viewing systems from a perspective that everything is a service, dynamically discovered and orchestrated, using messaging on the network. Microsoft recognizes the importance of web services, which lie at the center of the .NET paradigm. Indeed, .NET is sometimes characterized as simply a means of creating web services.

In a web services architecture, each component is regarded as a service, encapsulating behavior and providing the behavior through an API available for invocation over a network (usually the Internet). This is the logical evolution of object-oriented techniques (encapsulation, messaging, dynamic binding, and reflection) in e-business. Many ...