Windows Web Services API

The main idea behind creating the Windows Web Services API (WWSAPI) was to offer a solution to developers that need to run a web service but could not depend on WCF for a particular reason. Some technologies such as the SOAP toolkit offered this functionality, but they haven’t been updated in a while to conform to the latest protocols, specifications, and standards. With WWSAPI, web services can be written with the Win32 API and they have absolutely no dependency on the .Net framework.

WWS are interoperable with all versions of SOAP that implement the WS-* protocol and it has been created in such a way that it is interoperable with WCF as well.

WWS will be available as a system component of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. With the release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, system updates will make it possible for older operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, to fully support the Web Services API.