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Chapter
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9Borland Enterprise Server Web
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Services
Important
The Borland Enterprise Server provides an out-of-the-box web services capability in all
Borland Partitions.
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Web Services Overview
A Web Service is an application component that you can describe, publish, locate, and
invoke over a network using standardized XML messaging. Defined by new
technologies like Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description
Language (WSDL), and Universal Discovery, Description and Integration (UDDI), this
is a new model for creating e-business applications from reusable software modules
that are accessed on the World Wide Web.
Web Services Architecture
The standard Web Service architecture consists of the three roles that perform the web
services publish, find, and bind operations:
1 The Service Provider registers all available web services with the Service Broker.
2 The Service Broker publishes the web services for the Service Requestor to access.
The information published describes the web service and its location.
3 The Service Requestor interacts with the Service Broker to find the web services.
The Service Requestor can then bind or invoke the web services.
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The Service Provider hosts the web service and makes it available to clients via the
Web. The Service Provider publishes the web service definition and binding
information to the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) registry.
The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) documents contain the information
about the web service, including its incoming message and returning response
messages.
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