What is a Web Service
What is a Web Service ?
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Web Services are business logic components which provide functionality via the Internet
using standard protocols such as HTTP.
Web Services uses Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in order to expose the business
functionality.SOAP defines a standardized format in XML which can be exchanged
between two entities over standard protocols such as HTTP. SOAP is platform independent
so the consumer of a Web Service is therefore completely shielded from any
implementation details about the platform exposing the Web Service. For the consumer it
is simply a black box of send and receive XML over HTTP. So any web service hosted on
windows can also be consumed by UNIX and LINUX platform.
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