The following table lists, by category, several common development environments that support Web service client development. For each environment, the name of enabling technology is given. Because Web service technologies are constantly evolving, this is by no means a complete list.
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Development Environment |
Web Service technology |
---|---|
3-tier Web Server-based |
|
IIS ASP |
ServerXMLHTTP |
IIS ASP.NET |
Web Reference |
ColdFusion |
<CFX_SOAP> |
Apache PHP |
NuSOAP.php |
Desktop Applications |
|
VB |
SOAP Toolkit |
VB.NET |
Web Reference |
Office 2000/XP |
Office XP Web Services Toolkit |
Eclipse RCP |
Eclipse WTP / Apache Axis |
Java |
Apache Axis, Apache CXF, Spring, etc. |
2-tier Web Browser-based |
|
IE |
XMLHTTP*; WebService Behavior (webservice.htc) |
Netscape |
XMLHttpRequest* |
Desktop Scripting |
|
Perl |
|
WSH |
XMLHTTP* |