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Microsoft has promoted ASP.NET’s new web services more than almost any other part of the.NET Framework. But despite their efforts, confusion is still widespread about what a web service is and, more importantly, what it’s meant to accomplish. This chapter introduces web services and explains their role in Microsoft’s vision of the programmable web. Along the way, you’ll learn about the open standards plumbing that allows web services to work and removes some of the confusion surrounding technical terms like WSDL (Web Service Description Language), SOAP, and UDDI (universal description, discovery, and integration).
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MacDonald, M. (2004). Web Services Architecture. In: Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0710-8_19
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