XML web services and miPortal

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Web services are a growing technology and increasingly all
e-commerce and web companies are providing web service front ends for their web-based businesses. The technology is based on W3C endorsed standards such as XML, WSDL and SOAP. Most important it has support and backing from every major software vendor such as  Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle etc. Due to wide industry support web services are becoming the preferred way for publishing web-based services for third parties to use.

 Innumerable tools exist to create, deploy and consume web services. This has resulted in a lot many useful web services   which is why miPortal's information back end is an XML web service .A web service publishes an interface document (WSDL), which tells the client how to invoke the service, and
get results .Its for any client to consume and is hence available for consumption on all devices. miPortal uses WSDL1.1
to understand what a service does and figure out where its located .

miPortal seeks to aggregate web services relevant to a mobile user and help users create a personalized portal of preferred information services. Mobile devices are often limited by screen and bandwidth constraints and its difficult to download HTML web pages on these devices. Even if one can download them ,its next to impossible to search and locate information typically needed on the move.

With miPortal, the user is presented with a portal of useful and relevant information services whose number is constantly growing .The user is also relieved of the painful experience of trying to access the internet on a low bandwidth connection from the phone.

miPortal optimizes SOAP requests made to web services. The client sends only a very small message and a proxy  server converts it correctly to a full blown SOAP request for the web service.
Web services are mainly used for a transaction kind of service and most mobile information services are of a transaction kind.  A web service is natural way to deliver services for the mobile world and miPortal does the job of accessing these web services
from a phone.

All web services provided by miPortal are free to use. If you wish to provide a useful web service ,please fill up the below form and your web service will be mobile enabled soon!