| Web Services
can make your applications Web applications.
Web Services are published,
found and used through the Web.
What You Should Already Know
Before you continue you should have
a basic understanding of the following:
If you want to study these subjects
first, find the tutorials on our Home
page.
What are Web Services?
- Web services are application components
- Web services communicate using
open protocols
- Web services are self-contained
and self-describing
- Web services can be discovered
using UDDI
- Web services can be used by other
applications
- XML is the basis for Web services
How Does it Work?
The basic Web services platform
is XML + HTTP.
The HTTP protocol is the most used
Internet protocol.
XML provides a language which can
be used between different platforms
and programming languages and still
express complex messages and functions.
Web services platform elements
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
- UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery
and Integration)
- WSDL (Web Services Description
Language)
We will explain these topics later
in the tutorial
The Future of Web services
Don't expect too much, too soon.
The Web Services platform is a simple,
interoperable, messaging framework.
It still misses many important features
like security and routing. But, these
pieces will come once SOAP becomes
more advanced.
Hopefully, Web services can make
it much easier for applications to
communicate.
Web Services Basic
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