Why use Web Services?
A few years ago, Web services were not yet fast enough to generate much interest.
The most important thing is working together
Since all major platforms can access the Web through Web browsers, different platforms can interact through this. In order to make these platforms work together, Web applications were developed.
Web applications are simple applications that run on the Web. They are built around Web browser standards and can be used by almost any browser on any platform.
Web services lift Web applications to another level
By using Web services, your application can publish functions or messages to the whole world.
Web services use XML to encode and decode data, and use SOAP to transmit data through open protocols.
Through Web services, your accounting department's Win 2k server can connect with your IT supplier's UNIX server.
There are two types of Web services applications
Reusable application components
There are some functions that are commonly used by different applications. So why develop them over and over again?
Web services can provide application components as services, such as currency conversion, weather forecasting, or even language translation, and so on.
Ideally, each application component has only one best version, so that anyone can use it in their application.
Connect existing software
By providing different applications with a way to link their data, Web services help solve the problem of working together.
By using Web services, you can exchange data between different applications and platforms.
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