Chapter - 11

CREATING AND CONSUMING

WEB SERVICES
- PREPARED BY
SNEHI PATEL
WHAT IS XML WEB SERVICES
 Web service is a method and other program logic
available to web application
 Web service can be added to any web application

 Web services communicate using open protocol

 Web services are self contained and self

describing
 Web services can be discovered using UDDI

 Web services can be used by other applications

 XML is the basis for web services
ARCHITECTURE/INFRASTRUCTURE OF XML WEB SERVICE
1. SOAP (SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOL)

 Web services have three basic platform elements :

SOAP , WSDL , UDDI
 Soap is an XML – based protocol used for
accessing a web service
 SOAP  stands for Simple Object Access Protocol

 Soap is a format for sending message

 Soap is designed to communicate via internet

 Soap is platform independent

 Soap is language independent

SOAP
 Soap is based on XML
 Soap is simple and extensible
2. WSDL
 WSDL is XML based language
 WSDL stands for web services description
language
 WSDL is based on XML

 WSDL is used to describe Web services

 WSDL is used to locate Web services

3. UDDI
 UDDI is a directory service where companies
can register and search for web services
 UDDI stands for universal description , discovery
and integration
 UDDI is a directory for storing information
about web services
 UDDI communicates via SOAP

 UDDI is built into Microsoft .Net platform

CREATING A WEB SERVICE