Windows Communication Foundation what communication protocols are used to access the service, whether security mechanisms are to be used, and the like. WCF includes predefined bindings for most common communication protocols such as SOAP over HTTP, SOAP over TCP, and SOAP over Message Queues, etc. Interaction between WCF endpoint and client is done using a SOAP envelope. SOAP envelopes are in simple XML form, which makes WCF platform-independent. When a client wants to access the service via an endpoint, it not only needs to know the contract, but it also has to adhere to the binding specified by the endpoint. Thus, both client
The Limits to Growth exponential reserve assumes that the growth rate is constant. The exponential index has been interpreted as a prediction of the number of years until the world would "run out" of various resources, both by environmentalist groups calling for greater conservation and restrictions on use, and by skeptics criticizing the index when supplies failed to run out. What "The Limits to Growth" actually has is the above table, which has the "current reserves" (that is no new sources of oil are found) for oil running out in 1992 assuming constant exponential growth. In "Limits to Growth: The Thirty Year Update" there