Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
by Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria, Amit Bahree, Nishith Pathak
Introduction
This book explains the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) from the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) perspective. It explains WCF as an evolution of the SOA concept, not as a "message bus" concept built on the next generation of Microsoft products. The book attempts to answer the following main questions:
What is SOA?
Why is WCF so important? What does it solve?
How does WCF implement SOA principles?
How does interoperability work between WCF and other SOA implementations?
We will provide answers to these questions by concentrating on the following important features of WCF:
The WCF programming model
The unified programming model
The hosting options available for WCF web services
How to make WCF web services secure
How to manage ...
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