What is included with ArcWeb Services?
ArcWeb Services allows you to include geographic functionality in your Web applications without hosting the data or developing the necessary GIS applications yourself. ArcWeb Services gives developers the ability to perform real-time processing on the computers where the Web services are located and return the results to a local application—all over the Internet. ArcWeb Services are deployed through standard Web protocols including HTTP, WSDL, UDDI, and XML. The services use XML-based Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to communicate, making ArcWeb Services compatible with the majority of Web service toolkits. Some services come with a Web-interface, making it easy to interact with the service. ArcWeb Services allows you to perform such tasks as generating street maps and driving directions, locating addresses, providing “find a place” and “find closest place” functionality within Internet applications, querying data, and uploading and maintaining points of interest.
