ASP.NET Web Service Basics
Introduction
We can now use ASP.NET to create Web Services based on industrial standards including XML, SOAP, and WSDL.
A Web Service is a software program that uses XML to exchange information with other software via common internet protocols. In a simple sense, Web Services are a way of interacting with objects over the Internet.
A web service is
- Language Independent.
- Protocol Independent.
- Platform Independent.
- It assumes a stateless service architecture.
- Scalable (e.g. multiplying two numbers together to an entire customer-relationship management system).
- Programmable (encapsulates a task).
- Based on XML (open, text-based standard).
- Self-describing (metadata for access and use).
- Discoverable (search and locate in registries)- ability of applications and developers to search for and locate desired Web services through registries. This is based on UDDI.
Web Service History
- Microsoft coined the term “Web services” in June 2000, when the company introduced Web services as a key component of its .Net