What is a Web Services Platform ?

Environment, tools, libraries and other resources for:



• Development of web services
  • top down -- start with user code and generate WSDL
  • bottom up -- start with WSDL and generate interfaces
  • middle out -- a combination
  • discovery of service interfaces
• Deployment of web services
  • publishing of services
  • pre and post processing of SOAP requests, responses
  • processing requests for WSDL descriptions
• Consumption of Web Services
  • discovery of Web Service
  • invocation of/interaction with Web Services

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