Chapter 4.4. WebServices
IN THIS CHAPTER
Accessing data with distributed applications has produced various technologies over the years. From general Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) mechanisms, such as XML-RPC, to full-blown distributed objects, such as CORBA and DCOM. The WebServices paradigm is based on the simple premise of extending the basic XML-RPC mechanism to allow for procedure calls over the Internet using open transport protocols such as HTTP over TCP/IP connections.
.NET supports WebServices invocations through HTTP POST, HTTP GET, and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Before the introduction of WebServices support in .NET, developing a WebService host, proxy, and client was a ...
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