XML Web services are new and innovative standalone applications. At their core, they provide a way for applications to exchange data and processing capability. For example, your application might pass a string representing a book International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to an XML Web service and receive price quotes from three top book retailers back from the service. In this article, we'll explore integrating XML Web services into Microsoft® Office applications. We'll do this by adding three XML Web services to a customer tracking and feedback application in a Microsoft Access 2002 database.
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