What Are XML Web Services?
XML Web services are application components that can expose functionality over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) using the simple object access protocol (SOAP). Using Web services, you have the ability to expose methods in your applications to anyone on the Internet.
Before .NET, one of the biggest challenges developers had to work around was getting data from their servers to another server without compromising security. If you had a component that returned customer information, and you wanted to let someone outside your network access that component, your task wasn't easy. You had to configure the distributed component object model (DCOM) and somehow manage to let the caller of the component authenticate on your ...
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