Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Creating Your Own NWOrdersWS Web Service

Relying on third-party Web services is chancy if the Web service publisher doesn’t provide quality-of-service guarantees. The OakLeaf Demonstration Web site, which is connected to the Interned by a DSL line, has had 99.3 percent uptime for two years, but there’s no guarantee that this level of service will continue indefinitely. Thus, there’s the possibility that you won’t be able to connect to the NWOrdersWS Web service at www.oakleaf.ws/nwordersws/nwordersws.asmx. Visual Studio .NET makes creating ASP.NET Web services a quick and easy process, so you might want to create a local ASP.NET Web service as a learning exercise, as well as for insurance against an inability to run the OakLeaf demonstration ...