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Thursday, 09 July 2009 08:54 |
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Page 11 of 17 Web ServicesThe term Web services describes a standardized, system independent way of integrating Web-based applications using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. - XML is used to tag the data
- SOAP is used to transfer the data
- WSDL is used for describing the available services
- UDDI is used for listing what services are available
Web services' distributed computing model allows application-to-application communication. For example, one purchase-and-ordering application could communicate to an inventory application that specific items need to be reordered. Because of this level of application integration, Web services have grown in popularity and are beginning to improve business processes.
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 data 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.
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