Consuming Web Services through UDDI, SOAP and Weblets
Web Services in the Microsoft .NET Framework make it easy to write components that communicate using HTTP GET, HTTP POST, and SOAP. Consumers of a Web Service do not need to know anything about the platform, object model, or programming language used to implement the service; they only need to understand how to send and receive SOAP messages (HTTP and XML).
Since the decentralized nature of Web Services enables both the client and the Web Service to function as autonomous units, there are countless ways to consume a Web Service. For example, a call to a Web Service can be included in a Web application, a middleware component, or even another Web Service.
This article provides a general overview of UDDI and describes how to consume web services through UDDI, SOAP and light-weight components (referred to here as Weblets).
