Designing the Web Service
To help you see how XML Web Services can work in this type of scenario, the rest of this chapter will show you how to build Web Services that allow two trading partners to interact. Our first fictitious company is called Jackson-Lauren Distributing Company (JLD), and it acts as distributor of a variety of products. JLD has a number of dealers around the country, including our second fictitious company, Elise's Emporium (EE). Elise's Emporium maintains a Web site that has a complete product listing, as well as information as to whether each product is in stock or back-ordered, based on information provided by JLD.
You'll be building the following software for both EE and JLD:
A basic Web site to show products available ...
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