Chapter 22. Web Services

In This Chapter

  • Web Service Basics

  • Using Web Services

Web Services is a distributed computing technology enabling the exposure and reuse of logical business entities over the Internet. There are all types of distributed computing technologies, but the emphasis here is on open standards. In particular, these are based upon World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) protocols and communications standards.

With open standards, businesses can deploy components on the Web to be consumed by anyone, anywhere. It does not matter what computer is being used, its operating system, or the programming language used to implement the logic. Applicable bits include the communications protocol, data formats, and registry interaction, which are ...

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