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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
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Preface

Web services


Web services are application components that are basically used to publish business logic. They allow us to communicate using well-documented and open protocols, so we can use web services to, for example, communicate with other applications, and we can also use them to reuse or publish our business logic.

In the preceding diagram, UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) defines which system is which, respective to its specific data. First, the system to be contacted is discovered, and then contact is established using the SOAP web service.

The service provider system validates the request by referring to the WSDL (Web Services Description Language) file, processing the request, and sending the data using the SOAP protocol.

Web services are self-contained and self-describing, which means that, if you publish your business logic via a web service, it happens via some specific protocols that describe exactly how external components or applications can make use...