Build state-of-the-art distributed Web applications with this comprehensive XML Web services development guide, which examines the architecture, protocols, and practices you need to know to build Web-ready, distributed-object applications. lt gives you in depth information about the basic building blocks of XML Web services; Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies. It also describes Microsoft.NET My Services and other upcoming XML-based technologies from Microsoft.