Service-Orientated Architectures (SOA) allow data and work to spread out across multiple computers running on multiple platforms and are the backbone of many web and desktop applications we have designed here at Odyssey.

Web services do the work of passing data back and forth in an SOA. These mechanisms can be configured to send SOAP, JSON or standard XML messages to any number of consumers such as iPhone apps, Android apps, Windows applications, non-Windows platform products designed for Apple OSX and UNIX, or even web application technologies like AJAX and plain JavaScript.

At a much lower level, with the utilization of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), SOAs can communicate using bloat-free binary communications over networks and pipes on top of standard web services. Consumers can also be exposed to asynchronous event notifications depending on the needs of the application. Web services and WCF can tie your web, desktop, mobile and server applications together in ways you’ve never thought possible.

Projects using Web Services: