Introduction to The Foundation

In this section, we will provide an overview on the motivation behind the creation of Web services and their usage. This section briefly and succinctly covers initiating the design of a Web service and some of the infrastructure and other basic components that are used in its construction. It also covers the four standards that are used in Web services: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI).

Chapter One Web Services Overview

The goal of Web services is to allow normally incompatible applications to interoperate over the Web regardless of language, platform, or operating system. Web services allow for business ...

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