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About Web services
About
Web Service
The term Web services describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications
using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and HTTP. Unlike traditional client/server models, such
as a Web server/Web page system, Web services do not provide the user with a GUI.
Web services instead share business logic, data and processes through a programmatic
interface across a network.
The applications interface, not the users. Developers can then add the Web service
to a GUI (such as a Web page or an executable program) to offer specific functionality
to users. Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate
with each other without time-consuming custom coding, and because all communication
is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming
language. For example, Java can talk with Perl, Windows applications can talk with
UNIX applications.
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