Tuesday, July 8, 2008

What is a WebService?

Web services are a new way of performing remote method calls over HTTP that can make use of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). In the past this issue has been fraught with difficulty, as anyone who has any DCOM (Distributed COM) experience knows. The act of instantiating an object on a remote server, calling a method, and obtaining the result was far from simple, and the necessary configuration was even trickier.

ref: http://www.aspdotnetfaqs.com/

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