terms!

[Techno]

Hi there.


I am pretty good with terms etc... and know the technology well however I am looking for a good ASP.NET webhosting company. I have found several but they have terms that are very confusing.. or really trying to "trick" you...

I have made a webservice. It's a ASMX file.
What is this ASMX file? Is it a WSDL? is it SOAP? is it WSE? What is it? I mean, I am looking through the specs of packages - some state clearly that it supports "WSDL, ASMX, XML, SOAP" etc.. and others are just "WSDL" or just "SOAP" or just "Full ASP.NET support"

so... what is ASMX?

generally, do these web hosting companies who host ASP.NET sites support web services?

Thanks!

[mendhak]

When you are specifying a .NET web service to add to your project, you will add a location to an ASMX file. In effect, the ASMX is the web service, as it contains all the code and logic being implemented.

[dj4uk]

Web hosts love acronyms:
asmx file - is just a ASP.NET web service source file.

WSDL - Web Service Definition Language - an xml formatted language to describe a web service's capabilities.

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - a standard for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network.

Basically a Web Service uses WSDL and SOAP for it to work. Sounds to me like the hosts you are looking at do support Web Services.

DJ

[rajrakesh]

A Web Service is programmable application logic accessible via standard Web protocols. One of these Web protocols is the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). SOAP is a W3C submitted note (as of May 2000) that uses standards based technologies (XML for data description and HTTP for transport) to encode and transmit application data.

Hi to All

Consumers of a Web Service do not need to know anything about the platform, object model, or programming language used to implement the service; they only need to understand how to send and receive SOAP messages (HTTP and XML).
ASMX(Active Server Method)