.NET web services Interview Question:

Explain in brief Web Service Standards?

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Following are the standards used by web services:

WSDL
WSDL is used to create interface definition for a web services. It describes all about methods to the client, i.e. methods available in a web service, their parameters and return values.

SOAP

SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol is a communication protocol, a way to structure data, based on XML. The web services use SOAP message format to encode information before sending.

HTTP
The SOAP message format in web services uses HTTP as communication protocol, i.e. SOAP messages are sent over HTTP channels.

DISCO
It is used to create discovery documents that provide links to multiple web service endpoints. The DISCO standard creates a single file that groups a list of related web services. A company can publish a DISCO file on its server that contains links to all the web services it provides.

UDDI
A standard for creating business registries that catalog companies, the web services they provide, and the corresponding URLs for their WSDL contracts.
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