. The essence of net-xml and soap (i)

With so much advertising and publicity, now you may start to think about what. NET is. Internet applications are growing, but our Internet programming is still in the Stone Age. Internet users, like users on a time-sharing terminal of an older host, request information from a protected resource and wait for a response. The information that you receive from the Internet site you are browsing is made up of HTML based information that it wishes to provide to you.

But is it more fun to interact with a remote Web site? Would it be better if we could somehow access the computing power provided by the remote site and take advantage of its services, not just its ability to publish? This is the essence that. NET will provide.

. NET combines the computing power provided by a remote server with the traffic necessary to allow user interaction. Specifically,. NET is designed for you-internet developers-it helps you create new capabilities that can be augmented. Instead of being an island in the ocean of bandwidth, your Internet site can build your site in such a way that it is integrated into the Internet through collaboration and interoperability.

The key to all this, of course, is the ability to cooperate. To be interoperable, data is shared with high-speed data transfer rates. How do you do this? Why is. NET happening today, not five years ago?

Part of the answer, of course, lies in the network technology we are in today. There have never been so many people with high-speed bandwidth connections, and more people will join in in the near future. Imagine a time when everyone has a DSL, Cable Modem or broadband wireless connection ... It will be difficult to recall the age of the 300 potter Modem:-(

In the past few years, two of the most critical advances have been in the introduction of XML and its application in SOAP. These technologies are at the heart of. NET. To be a leader in the. NET development world, you must understand XML and SOAP.