Introduction to Web Services
Web Services makes your application a Web application.
Web Services is published, found, and used through Web.
The basic knowledge you should have
Before continuing, you need to have a basic understanding of the following knowledge:
HTML
XML
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What is Web Services?
Web Services is an application component
Web Services uses open protocols for communication
Web Services is self-contained and self-describing
Web Services can be discovered by using UDDI
Web Services can be used by other applications
XML is the foundation of Web Services
How does it work?
The basic Web Services platform is XML + HTTP.
HTTP protocol is the most commonly used Internet protocol.
XML provides a language that can be used between different platforms and programming languages.
Elements of the Web services platform:
SOAP (simple object access Protocol)
UDDI (General description, Discovery and Integration)
WSDL (Web services description language)
We will cover these topics later in this tutorial.