... Schaaff, A. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... Started at CDS in 2002, the work around Web Services is in a full exploitation phase. ... A portal is available to publish all information about how to use CDS XML Webservices and also hints on how to start to use XML Web Services (tutorial, links, etc.) ... Figure: The CDS Web Service Portal at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml . ... Note that it is not necessary to deal with the contents of a SOAP file to have client access to the CDS XML Web Services. ...