September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
Web services follow a stateless request/response model that corresponds directly with the client/server model of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The following summary illustrates this programming pattern:
• A client application discovers that a server application hosts a web service that exposes one or more web methods. This process, known as discovery, is accomplished in one or more of the following ways:
• Microsoft’s Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) service, an online catalog for publishing web services, facilitates this process.
• More commonly, the developer of the hosted web service provides the network address and web method descriptions to the developer of the client application that ...