Wednesday, April 30, 2008

What is a Web Service?




A Web service is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network." Web services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.


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Web Services are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network, generally, the Web.




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