Backbones of Web Services
Let us explore the baseline XML Web services specifications, such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.
XML (Extensible Markup Language): XML is the foundation on which Web services are built. XML provides the description, storage, and transmission format for data exchanged via Web services. XML is a simple, platform-independent, and broadly adopted standard.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol): SOAP is a lightweight and simple XML-based protocol that is designed to exchange structured and typed information on the Web. SOAP is a protocol that defines how to access services, objects, and servers in a platform-independent manner using HTTP and XML. SOAP uses XML as a wire protocol to describe how the data and its associated type ...
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