Extending Office Applications With Web Services

摘要

The 21 standard Web services in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and 19 standard Web services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 enable you to create remarkably flexible solutions for retrieving data from local and remote resources, extending standard Microsoft Office suite features and integrating business applications. Of course, you may have even more than 40 Web services. If you install additional server solutions that integrate with SharePoint, such as Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, you might find that the count on your SharePoint server easily exceeds 60 or more Web services. And that doesn't even count any of the custom SharePoint Web services you might want to implement. Web services are fundamental building blocks of distributed business applications, and in the era of Software-plus-Services, Web services are even more significant because they provide the means for organizations to integrate on-premise solutions with hosted environments.