As outlined in the first part of this article, referencing services greatly extends their visibility and promotes their capitalization. When most of the time services are deployed somewhere and accessible from a fairly static location, it happens that, to cater particular business needs that we will be outlined later on this post, some services requires to be discoverable in order to be accessed transparently regardless of their particular location at the time. This document covers such a requirement by exposing how to combine open standards and WCF to publish services in such a way that they can be discovered dynamically at runtime based on custom business criteria.
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