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Introduction

Welcome to Web services frameworks in Mac OS X version 10.2 and 10.3.

This and subsequent chapters in this book introduce you to Web services available on Mac OS X. Some of the important concepts and terminology behind this newly emerging technology are discussed in this introductory chapter.

The toolkits and frameworks, including Apple’s WebServicesCore.framework, a client-side framework for accessing Web services from Mac OS X which is available in Mac OS X version 10.2, are discussed in Chapter 1, “Tasks.” Some of the tools and techniques for writing Web services glue and adding it to Cocoa, Carbon and AppleScript applications are also discussed in Chapter 1.

Finally, Chapter 2, “Web Services Reference,” provides a reference of APIs, constants, and types that are new in the Web services framework Mac OS X version 10.2 and 10.3.

This chapter discusses the WebServicesCore framework available in Mac OS X version 10.2 and later. The chapter describes the constants, data types and functions that comprise the framework.

Contents:

Defining Web Services
Web Service Invocations
The State of XML Web Services
XML-RPC vs. SOAP

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