The essence of. Net-XML and SOAP (1)

After reading so many advertisements and publicity, you may have an idea about. NET. Internet applications are constantly expanding, but our Internet programming method is still in the Stone Age. Internet users are like users on time-sharing terminals of old-fashioned hosts. They request information from a protected resource and wait for a response. The information you receive from an Internet site that you are browsing consists of the HTML-based information that you want to provide to you.

However, is interactive operations with remote Web sites more interesting? Will it be better if we can access the computing capability provided by the remote site in some way and use its services, not just its publishing capability? This is the essence that. NET will provide.

. NET combines the computing power provided by the remote server with the communication required to allow user interaction. Specifically,. NET is designed for you-Internet developers-to help you create scalable new capabilities. Your Internet site should not be an isolated island in the ocean of bandwidth. On the contrary, you can build your site in this way: integrating it into the Internet through cooperation and interoperability capabilities.

The key to all this is, of course, the ability to cooperate. To ensure interoperability, data must be shared at a high-speed data transmission rate. How can this be done? Why does. NET occur today, not five years ago?

Of course, part of the answer lies in our network technology. There have never been so many people with high-speed bandwidth connections, and more people will join in the near future. Imagine the era in which everyone has DSL, Cable Modem, or broadband wireless connections... it's hard for us to recall the era of 300 Potter Modem :-(

In the past few years, the two most critical advances have been the introduction of XML and Its Application in SOAP. These technologies are the core of. NET. To become a leader in the. NET development world, you must understand XML and SOAP.