Q&A
| Q. | What is the advantage of the web service model over conventional clientserver programming? |
| A. | The web service model is design to integrate standard components that are already present on most networks, such as web server and web browser applications. |
| Q. | Why is the web service model based on XML instead of HTML? |
| A. | HMTL is predefined collection of tags intended specifically as a markup language for web pages. XML has nearly unlimited capacity for defining new elements and assigning values to variables. |
| Q. | Considering that countless vendors all have their own languages and components for supporting web services, what is the benefit of uniform standards like SOAP and WSDL? |
| A. | Standards like SOAP and WSDL provide a common format so that components ... |
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