Chapter 5: Looking at Key Operations

Overview

As you have learned, web services let programmers integrate into their programs many of the operations that users commonly perform at sites across the Web. In other words, using a web service, programmers can add to a program the functionality a web page might implement using an active server page.

In this chapter, you will examine ways you can take advantage of common web-based objects, such as cookies and Session and Application objects, as well as objects that contain context-specific information within your programs.

As discussed, web services provide programmers with the ability to integrate into their programs capabilities that developers have implemented on the Web using active server pages. As developers begin to create web services, many will first convert their existing active server pages into equivalent web services. In this chapter, you will examine ways you can support items commonly used within active server page scripts.