13. Programmable Web
PROGRAMMABLE WEB REFERS to a set of enabling technologies designed to help developers build the services for the Web. There are many ways of building services for the Web. We have already mentioned throughout the book how WCF can be used to build WS-* Web services, which use SOAP, HTTP, and XML. Services based on WS-* are typically built using a service-oriented architecture approach.
A service-oriented architecture approach follows four main tenants:
- Boundaries are explicit.
- Services are autonomous.
- Services share schema and contract, no class.
- Services compatibility is determined based on policy (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/Indigo/default.aspx).
Services can be built from other styles of architectures, ...
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