Chapter 18. Web Services and Flows (WSFL)
By Francisco Curbera and Matthias Kloppmann
In This Chapter
The overall aim of Web services is to provide a standards-based framework to enable application-to-application interaction. Simple interactions, in particular stateless ones, can be modeled as single operation invocations or message exchanges with a service; WSDL and SOAP provide convenient support for this type of basic interaction. Richer interactions typically involve multiple invocations flowing between two or more services in a peer-to-peer setting—that is, a scenario ...
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