Web Service Overview
This first section provides the underlying information and concepts required to successfully implement Web Services. Before employing Web Services, you should understand which problems they are designed to solve and the motivation behind them. This should ensure that you apply Web Services in appropriate places in your application.
What Is a Web Service?
A Web Service is essentially an application component that can be accessed using Web protocols and data encoding mechanisms—primarily HTTP and XML. In some cases, this is a third-party service hosted remotely. A Web Service differs from a traditional component in several ways, not only in the protocols used to access it. Under the component model, a currency conversion component ...
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