Webservices

[pavankiran]

I understand in .NET platform, software may not be something that is installed from a CD, but is a service.In this context if we consider MS Word,Is this a collection of Web services? Can we use these services which are applicable, to develop our own software ?

How this is going to impact on third party component vendors?


kiran.

[Mr Ben]

A web service is just a component but is exposed and accessible over the internet. I think of this as making a DCOM call, as you are essentially calling methods of a component on a remote server.

This obviously allows companies to provide services (free or chargable) through the use of components which are exposed over the internet. For example, a company could write a web service which supplies current stock prices. A subscriber to this service would just call a method of the web service to gain access to this data.