12.1. Web Services for Mapping

While the internal details of web services XML-RPC, UDDI, WSDL, SOAP (all covered in Web Services Essentials, from O'Reilly)--are interesting to developers, they aren't the focus here. There are services particular to mapping and, even though they may operate in a similar fashion, they are completely different from the general services a web developer may be familiar with. This chapter focuses on the web services MapServer supports.