Concept of Web services

Question

Explain the concept of Web services.

Answer 1

Web services is defined as the independent and self-sustained unit of the software application which is hosted on the Web and implements particular functionalities in order to execute the business logic. Web service offers many functionalities, like generating pay slips for employees, broadcasting weather report, computing tax, and giving the updated news. Web service permits the application for sharing the information or exchange the data with the other applications across the various operating systems and hardware.

Thus, work of Web service is to unite the software by exchanging data regardless of their operating systems, supported hardware, and programming language used within their development. Web services transfer the data in XML format and use Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for communication. It is an XML based protocol. Web services use the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and Discovery, Universal Description, and the Integration (UDDI) for describing itself.