One of the main reasons many developers flocked to the Microsoft .NET Framework, and Java to a lesser degree, was the fact that it made it much easier to write software for the Internet. Whether you were writing an HTTP client or server application, the .NET Framework had you covered with classes for making HTTP requests and processing XML easily. You could even generate SOAP clients from WSDL documents and implement SOAP servers with ASP.NET. As the standards around Web services matured, Microsoft developed the Windows Communications Foundation (WCF), also built on the .NET Framework, to make it easier to use the increasingly complex Web standards for handling different transports, such as TCP and UDP, and provide more versatile security options.
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