Chapter 2. The AJAX Application Server: Service Orientation and the Windows Communication Foundation

After completing this chapter, you will

  • Understand the principles of service orientation and how to incorporate service orientation in an application platform for AJAX components.

  • Understand the fundamentals of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) endpoints, bindings, and behaviors.

  • Understand how to implement contract-based services with WCF.

  • Understand how to deploy WCF services to an ASP.NET application.

In Chapter 1, you learned about foundational AJAX runtime components using JavaScript, ASP.NET AJAX, basic AJAX Web requests, and simple service endpoints in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). You also learned about some of the benefits of ...

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