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Chapter 9: Borland Enterprise Server Web Services 85
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Chapter 9Borland Enterprise Server Web
Services
The Borland Enterprise Server provides an out-of-the-box web services
capability in all Borland Partitions.
Important For documentation updates, go to www.borland.com/techpubs/bes.
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.