Summary
In this chapter, you took a fairly high-level overview of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. These three technologies are part of the foundation of SOAP. By understanding how they all work, you will be able to develop high-quality Web Services. Coupled with some prior experience reading XML, this chapter provides you with enough information to understand a WSDL file and what a compliant SOAP message for a given WSDL file should look like. When developing SOAP messages that communicate with non-Microsoft toolkits, you will have to know how to read the raw XML messages going between endpoints.
You will rarely program directly against a UDDI data store. More often, you will use the user interface provide by the registrar to register your business and ...
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