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14.2 Overview of the technologies used
Web services are self-contained, software components that can be described,
published, located, and invoked over the Web. It provides an universal
program-to-program communication model based on open standards and
common infrastructure for description, discovery, and invocation.
This section introduces the major components used in a Web services
technology:
XML to provide the interoperable content model
SOAP to structure messages (Web services uses a message based
communication) into requests and responses
WSDL and XML Schema to describe a service, its bindings, and its location
UDDI to register and find services
XPath to query and select the infor