Professional ASP.NET Web Services
Web Services are being hailed as a leap forward in distributed computing. Web Services evangelists foresee a future where functionality can be programmatically discovered and accessed over the Internet, as and when it is required. Of course, some commentators disagree, seeing Web Services as nothing more than a standardized iteration of older distributed computing systems.
Whether or not we see Web Services as a big step or a small evolution, we must all agree that they are generating a lot of interest. The technologies and standards behind Web Services are being adopted by a wide range of companies in the computing industry. At the forefront of the drive for acceptance of these standards are IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft.
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IBM and Sun have chosen Java as their preferred development platform for Web Services, providing tools and support to Java Web Services developers. Microsoft initially provided tools to allow Visual Basic and Active Server Pages developers to begin creating Web Services. With the latest incarnation of Active Server Pages, ASP.NET, Microsoft has fully embraced Web Services, building Web Service functionality into the system itself.
ASP.NET makes exposing functionality through a Web Service very straightforward. That is not to say, however, that there is little to learn about developing Web Services in ASP.NET. Although Web Services can be seen as an evolution of previous distributed computing standards, they do have new considerations which must be taken into account if we are to harness their full potential.
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Publisher Wrox Press
Author(s) Array
ISBN 1861005458
Release Date 04 April 2008
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