XML Web Services Platform

First, take a look at what Microsoft is hoping .NET will be. Later, a we will have detailed look at how two core concepts of .NET will help it achieve these goals.

Microsoft .NET is designed to act as an XML "Web Services" platform. We will see more about "web services" later. But for now, what does it mean to say that .NET is an "XML web services platform"?

• Right now, integration across applications is very difficult due to proprietary standards and technologies. .NET is built on open standards (e.g. XML) and embraces many programming languages.
• Because of proprietary standards, applications have a hard time exchanging data or acting upon it. By using XML, .NET makes it easier to exchange and understand application data and provides the API to work with it.
• XML is also employed by .NET to provide general application interoperability, integration, and extensibility.
• Personal information and other data are not under your control on the web. .NET allows management of the privacy of such information through various services.
• Dot-coms and web site development have hard time providing value to users, partly because web sites that would like to work together often can't - they are like disconnected islands. .NET will allow a web site to collaborate together and aggregate the value of services of many sites to increase the value of their own.

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