Web services might be used to replace most of the services offered by the DCE
RPC component. SOAP and WSDL might be used as replacements for the DCE
RPC basics and DCE RPC endpoint services. They handle serialization,
marshalling, and bind protocols. The UDDI might be used to replace the RPC
namespace service.
A specification for SOAP security is being defined by various vendors through the
OASIS organization. The specification proposes a set of SOAP extensions for
implementing security by means of a variety of security models including PKI,
Kerberos, and SSL.
IBM provides C/C++ development support for SOAP in the form of toolkits. At the
time of writing, these toolkits are in the form of technical previews. IBM ...
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