.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

The underlying software and hardware that provide the connective tissue for the Internet represent some of the most complex technology of the past few decades....

Simply stated, computers need to share data. Many scenarios bear this out: Businesses need to share information with partners. Divisions need to send data to...

Distributed application development is the art and engineering of getting data from one machine to another. This data can be of almost infinite variation: purchase...

The Web architecture assumes and deals gracefully with failure, latency, and all kinds of other real-world problems. This is a major strength and one that...

A core concept of Web services (in particular, the wire protocol: SOAP) is that they are very modular. One flaw of many other attempts at...

You may have noticed that I used the term message passing earlier. At a very fundamental level, Web services are expressed in messages that are...

As noted earlier, the Web architecture assumes failure. Web services inherit HTTP's design principle regarding failure, and attempt to improve on it. The SOAP specification...

Microsoft, IBM, and others have created a set of specifications and technologies surrounding their vision for Web service architecture of the future. These specifications fill...

The baseline specifications are the standards on which the Web service architecture builds to provide many of the other features needed in many distributed applications....

The term Web services refers to a set of technologies that are the future of distributed computing. The reasons why they are so apt for...