Webservices are a simple concept - a method of providing information through
a neutral medium. The idea is that you make a request through the internet
to a server using SOAP, the service figures out the answer to your request
and sends it back to you via SOAP.

An example would be an telephone book - supply a name and address, and it
returns a phone number. The service can be spread over 100 servers to give
good load handling, but to your point of view, it exists only as a single
service at a domain name.

Obviously, you can do a lot more complicated things than an address book.

In this way you can provide services which can run on any machine, anywhere,
and be used by any machine, anywhere. All the "service" is is the request
interface :)

Peter C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ricardo Figueira [mailto:RBFigueira@[...].PT]
Sent: 15 November 2001 13:47
To: DOTNET@[...].COM
Subject: [DOTNET] WebService


Friends,

Can anyone give me an example of a Webservice, for what is necessary and the
objective of a Webservice?

Can anyone give me a short explanation and a practical example ?

Best regards,

Ricardo Figueira (RBFIGUEIRA)
Moderador Lista PontoNetPT (ASP.NET e VB.NET)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PontoNetPT
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