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. It 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.