Xml web services
This is nothing but xml+web+services
Different business partners for different environments
generally use these XML web services, where
communication between different business partners is
needed.
Company2 Company1
Website Website
SUN Solaris O/S Windows O/S
TOMCAT web server XML Products
Web table
JSP PAGE service
Maintained by IIS
If the company2 requires the information of product
table of company1 then it will send a request (HTTP
request) and it will get the response. Both the request
and response will be in the form of XML based
format.
In ASP3.0 publishing services is possible using MTS
(Microsoft transaction server)
MTS acts as a container for inprocess COM
component, this will provide services only to the
Microsoft products, under windows O/s.
The advantages of MTS are,
1. It supports connection pooling, this will reduce
burden from the web server and performance
will be improved.
2. It supports DCOM implementation for inprocess
components.
3. It supports transaction handling.
When the service has to be provided towards
heterogeneous platforms belonging to different
vendors, then we require XML web services.
Comparison between distributed applications:
DCOM:
1. Remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism is
based on DCE-RPC (proprietary standard)
2. Description of services will be generated using
IDL compiler. (IDL is nothing but Interface
Description language will be maintained in .tlb
file. (Binary standard format)
3. Encoding for transmission is going to be
network based (windows only)
4. Transmission protocol is TCP/UDP
XML WEB SERVICES:
1. RPC mechanism is based on SOAP (Protocol)
i.e. Simple object access protocol (Open
Standard).
2. Description of services will be generated using
WSDL compiler, i.e. web services description
language. (XML FORMAT)
3. Encoding for transmission is going to be XML
Based (Text)
4. Transmission protocol is going to be HTTP
(Open Industry standard)
The uniqueness of XML web services is completely
based on open industry standards, as compared to
DCOM and RMI.
The Uniqueness comes because of XML standard
implementation with HTTP Protocol.
