Will SharePoint 2010 support Web Service Access?

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It's my understanding SharePoint 2010 has introduced a new JavaScript API, a brand new assembly for Silverlight clients, but does anybody know if there will be still support for good old Web Service Access?

By old services, I am referring to the old interface http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878586.aspx

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You would know if they were terminating Web Service access. Those things are used all the time. – Nat
Rumor has it some methods in Microsoft.SharePoint have not even been marked as [Obsolete] but rather completely removed. One can only wonder about WebServices. – Alex Nolasco

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Yes SharePoint 2010 still has web services. Review this MSDN section for more information.

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Essentially the new API's are there to help client side code run interesting code without having to use the Web Services. If you have ever tried utilising a webservice from Javascript you can understand the pain the new API's are trying to prevent.

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The Web services are still supported. However, the data-retrieval oriented Web services should be considered semi-deprecated. Going forward, you shoul use either the client object model or ADO.NET Data Services to get data from a client.

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I've been trying to figure out how to administrate the whole thing with whatever APIs are available. The MSDN documentation seems like what I need, except I feel stupid and can't find where those APIs are on my server. There are no URLs to be seen in the documentation. Am I blind?