On the Relationship between XML,SOAP,.NET and Web Service
WU Shu-jin · Journal of Tianjin Vocational Institutes · 2007
Web Service is a technology which can make the applications communicate with each other without being related to the platform and programming language.It's a software interface and use XML-based protocol to describe the operation or the data which will be exchanged with another Web Service.It presents a set of operations which pass access with standard XML messages through the network.