Web Services Demystified
Web services: they're the latest buzzword on the block. If you believe what you read in the glossy trade press, not to mention Microsoft's $200 million .NET advertising campaign, Web services are (in no particular order):
- Your new best friend
- The saviour of your business
- The doom of your business
- The next generation of the World Wide Web
None of this really tells you how they work or what they do for you, though. To make matters worse, Web services come with a plethora of snappy acronyms that don't mean a whole heck of a lot at first glance either:
- SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
- WSDL: Web Service Description Language
- UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
- XML: Extensible Markup Language
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