Web Services – Headers and Handlers (Part I)
Hello everybody and welcome to a new round of exploring. The Christmas holidays (if you are celebrating) are just over so I thought it would be a good idea to talk about something that has also been around for a long time: web services. Obviously, they haven't been around as long as Christmas but I bet that you have to spend some time trying to remember when you first used web services. So, before we dive into the serious stuff, let’s check some interesting web services trivia: The standardization of the web services started in 2002 by W3C. The 3 major concepts from the initial specification are WSDL (Web Services Description Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). Remember UDDI? Don’t worry. Very…