basic questions

[Mochuelo]

Hi,

I'm completely new to web services, although I have already spent some
time reading documents that explain the basics. I would appreciate if
someone could answer these (I suspect) easy questions:

- The computer running an application that exposes a web service needs
to have a web server running. Right?
- The web server needs to be IIS? I have Apache 2.0.49 installed and
running on my machine. Can I easily use it?
- The computer running an application that consumes a web service does
not need to have a web server running. True?
- When I expose a web service, does the .NET framework handle
automatically multithreading?

Thank you.

[Ignus Fast]

Re: basic questions

Yes.
Not necessarily. There are web services for Java and other platforms as
well. Microsoft web services require IIS, though.
True. It can even be a desktop application, Pocket PC program, etc.
Yes.

"Mochuelo" <hola@que.tal > wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm completely new to web services, although I have already spent some
> time reading documents that explain the basics. I would appreciate if
> someone could answer these (I suspect) easy questions:
>
> - The computer running an application that exposes a web service needs
> to have a web server running. Right?
> - The web server needs to be IIS? I have Apache 2.0.49 installed and
> running on my machine. Can I easily use it?
> - The computer running an application that consumes a web service does
> not need to have a web server running. True?
> - When I expose a web service, does the .NET framework handle
> automatically multithreading?
>
> Thank you.[/color]