Summary
Web services might very likely be the key to unlocking the potential of the Internet as a primary means of interbusiness communication. With Web services, disparate systems can communicate and exchange data in a useful manner. Web services leverage their power by working on a set of common Internet standards, such as HTTP, XML, and SOAP. The use of common standards enables communication and interaction between a variety of systems, regardless of their operating systems, applications, or languages.
In this chapter you learned
What Web services are
How to build simple Web services
How to build complex input/output Web service
How to consume Web services
You built both simple and complex Web services. Using the WSDL.exe utility, you built a ...
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