5.3. Developing Client Applications to Use a Web Service
All client applications follow certain steps to use a Web service. In brief, they must first look up or locate the service, make a call to the service, and process any returned data. The choice of communication mode determines much of the details for performing these steps.
An application can communicate with a service using stubs, dynamic proxies, or the dynamic invocation interface (DII) Call interface. (The next section explains these modes.) With these modes, a developer relies on some form of client-side proxy class (stub, dynamic proxy, or a DII interface) representing a Web service to access the service's functionality. The client developer decides which representation to use based ...
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