Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 18. Representational State Transfer and Plain XML Services

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• Introduction

• Representational State Transfer

• REST Services

• REST Services and Plain XML

• The Virtues and Limitations of REST Services

• Building REST POX Services with the Windows Communication Foundation

• References

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Introduction

This chapter shows how the Windows Communication Foundation can be used to build and use Representational State Transfer services and also services that communicate with XML files, rather than SOAP messages. A good example of a Representational State Transfer service that provides XML files rather than SOAP messages to its clients is a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) server, and that is indeed what this chapter shows ...