WebServices with Language Interoperability
By Vijay Cinnakonda
A webservice in general is a way of exposing the properties and methods through the Internet In other words, it’s an URL-addressable resource that programmatically returns information to clients who want to use it. A webservice is based on XML standards and has been implemented by different vendors like IBM, Sun Microsystems, CapeClear etc. Currently there is no official body, such as the W3C who have under taken the job of defining this fast evolving technology. Webservices have been foreseen as the future of computing over the web and are more pronounced in the .NET framework owing to its ease in development as well as consumption with or even without VisualStudio.NET. A webservice works on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Every call to the webmethod from the client’s machine is sent in the form of a SOAP envelope and result from the server is sent back in SOAP containing the result. Read more…

