Learning About Web Services
Web Services are applications that exist on a network. They communicate using standard Internet communication protocols (HTTP) via XML (rather, one particular dialect of XML called SOAP). The main benefit of Web Services over other means of distributing applications is that Web Services are not exclusive to any one platform or toolset. Web Services enable communication between different platforms, operating systems and/or programming languages. They are a simple, but powerful concept that allows developers to interconnect systems, even systems written using different tools and technologies.
Using a Web Service
Before you create a Web Service, you will use one first, in this case one of the Web Services made available ...
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