22.6. Using Web Forms and Web Services

Our prior examples accessed Web services from Windows applications. You can just as easily use Web services in Web applications. In fact, Web-based businesses are becoming increasingly prevalent, so it’s common for Web applications to consume Web services. Figure 22.20 presents an airline reservation Web service that receives information regarding the type of seat a customer wishes to reserve and makes a reservation if such a seat is available. Later in this section, we present a Web application that allows a customer to specify a reservation request, then uses the airline reservation Web service to execute the request. The code and database used in this example are provided with the chapter’s examples, ...

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