What is the web service platform? The basic platform is XML plus HTTP. HTTP is a ubiquitous protocol, running practically everywhere on the Internet. XML provides a metalanguage in which you can write specialized languages to express complex interactions between clients and services or between components of a composite service. Behind the web server, the XML message gets converted to a middleware request and the results converted back to XML.

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posted by Tom Termini at 7/18/2006