Hosting Using Internet Information Services
Web service development on IIS has long been the domain of ASP.NET. When ASP.NET 1.0 was released, a web service framework was part of it. Microsoft leveraged the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to make web services a reality on the Windows platform. Unfortunately, this tight coupling between ASP.NET and web services comes with several limitations in the service orientation world; the dependency on HTTP is the main culprit. Running the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline on a different host is hard and therefore is an uncommon scenario. Even then, ASP.NET web services (a.k.a. ASMX services) stay very web oriented in terms of deployment scenarios and configuration dependencies. Microsoft initially released several version ...
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