A Final Word

In this column, we connected back to our previous series on Web services. We showed you how to create Web services and how to use them. We taught you two ways to interact with Web services. You can simply browse Web services and test them from the browser. You can also consume Web services from within JavaScript code. We showed you how to create a GUI for consuming both Web services: add and IsPrime, and how to script the consuming capability into the page.

In this column you have learned:

• How to create a Web service
• How to interact with the add Web service
• How to interact with the IsPrime Web service
• How to write a page that consumes the add and IsPrime Web services
• How to script a page that consumes the add and IsPrime Web services from IE

The following files were zipped for you: checkIsPrime.asmx (the IsPrime Web service), simpleCalc.asmx (the add Web service), add.html (a consumer of the add Web service), isprime.html (a consumer of the IsPrime Web service), example.html (a consumer of both services), and webservice.htc (the DHTML behavior).