Communication and transport services
From XML to Web services for businesses
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Communication and transport services
From XML to Web services for businesses

Author : Jean-Marie CHAUVET

Publication date: February 10, 2003 | Lire en français

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2. Communication and transport services

In this transport layer, XML is used to describe the structure of messages exchanged between Web services. The message consists of the identifier of its recipient and the name of the operation invoked, the list of possible arguments and expected return values, as well as any optional additional parameters required for processing on the server side.

2.1 Communication between applications and Web services: SOAP and its applications

To find out more, readers are invited to consult the article SOAP .

Early attempts, such as XML-RPC, quickly converged within the W3C around SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), which has become a de facto standard for expressing XML messages between...

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