| Terms you'll need to understand: Disco Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Web method Web reference Web service Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Techniques you'll need to master: Creating a Web service Instantiating and invoking a Web service Customizing the WebMethod attribute Using the Web reference feature of Visual Studio .NET to locate Web services and automatically generate proxy classes for them Using a tool such as the .NET WebService Studio to inspect SOAP messages and WSDL files to see what's happening as you interact with a Web service
Web services are a means for interacting with objects over the Internet. This makes them a natural extension to .NET remoting, which allows objects to interact across processes. In this chapter, you'll see how to build and use Web services in your .NET applications and learn about the major protocols you use when you communicate with a Web service. |