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Research Architecture from a Developer Perspective

The architecture of research services is easy to understand. The developer builds a custom research service or set of services as an XML Web service or pair of Web services. This Web service corresponds to a "provider" and can process various types of searches, each of which corresponds to a "service." For more information, see Research Architecture from an IT Perspective.

All communication between the Research task pane and the Web services that it queries uses Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages. These SOAP messages contain XML packets that conform to schemas specific to each type of request and response. For more information about the schemas that define the terms of research service communication, see XML Schemas Overview.

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