MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
by Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani
Discovering Web Services
Publish an XML Web Service
Enable static discovery.
Publish XML Web Service definitions in the UDDI.
One of the problems with Web services is simply finding them. Because Web services aren't installed on your computer, you need some way to determine what messages they accept and what services they provide. The usual term for this process is discovery, which encompasses both finding Web services and determining their interfaces. You should know about three protocols in this area:
Disco
UDDI
WSDL
Disco and UDDI
Disco is a Microsoft standard for the creation of discovery documents. A Disco document is kept at a standard location on a Web services server and it contains paths and other information for retrieving useful information, ...
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