Microsoft's .NET Framework can also be used to produce Web Services and to access them. We now look at an example that illustrates how easy it is to interoperate Axis and .NET for Web Services. So we want the answers to the following questions:
The example we will look at provides a Web Service that accumulates the sum of a series of values. The Web Service is to provide a method called inc that has one parameter, and, each time a client calls inc, the value of the argument is added to a variable stored somewhere in the Web Service. So this Web Service is different from those we have looked at so far: it requires the Web Service to retain a value between successive calls.