Installing and Creating WCF Services
This chapter introduces how to implement WCF services. Much can be said about what constitutes a good service and a strong SOA architecture—Chapter 1 addresses those principles. Additionally, many have described web services and SOA as synonyms. We hope we've altered that perspective to clearly indicate that web services are an implementation model for SOA, just as message-oriented middleware and other loosely coupled technologies have provided in the past.
This chapter identifies the installation and configuration requirements of WCF and then presents a simplified set of examples for creating different types of contracts for services that are part of the QuickReturns Ltd. sample implementation. This chapter ...
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