Summary

Web services might very likely be the key to unlocking the potential of the Internet as a primary means of interbusiness communication. With Web services, disparate systems can communicate and exchange data in a useful manner. Web services leverage their power by working on a set of common Internet standards, such as HTTP, XML, and SOAP. The use of common standards enables communication and interaction between a variety of systems, regardless of their operating systems, applications, or languages.

In this chapter you learned

  • What Web services are

  • How to build simple Web services

  • How to build complex input/output Web service

  • How to consume Web services

You built both simple and complex Web services. Using the WSDL.exe utility, you built a ...

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