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SOAPing Up Web Services: Page 10 of 11

Web Links
• "W3C, Oasis Look for Common Web Services Ground" (InternetWeek Aug. 28, 2002)

• "Securing Web Services" (TechWeb)

• "Wash Away Those Web Service Testing Blues With Parasoft's SOAPtest" (Network Computing, June 24, 2002)

SOAP also defines the system-independent data types allowed for communications in the Web services world and provides a simple mechanism for building abstract data types out of them.

Putting It All Together

you have a working application and the WSDL file that describes its interface. What else do you need? For starters, you need to deploy the application and publish your WSDL file. Given that you are in an all .Net environment, Microsoft makes this task trivial--assuming you accept all the defaults. While a Tomcat/Apache installation requires more work, at this stage in the Web services standard, we feel more work is good. If you know how the pieces interoperate, you will understand the system better and can more easily debug it.