Chapter 12 Interoperability
In this chapter we cover Windows Communication Foundation’s interoperability with applications built on other platforms. By using a subset of standard, open web services protocols following the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1, we can create a Windows Communication Foundation client that communicates with a Sun Microsystems service.
The World Wide Web Consortium defines a web service as
…a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization ...
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