FUNDAMENTAL OF WEB SERVICES WEB SERVICES:- A Web service is a method of interaction between two devices over the WWW . It is a software tool provided on internet which helps us to create client-server service. It is a software system designed to support interoperability with various machine interaction over a network. The web service replies in a language called WSDL (Web Service Description Language). Some of its features are:- They are application components They communicate with open protocols They are self-describing It can be used by various applications The basis for web services are HTTP and XML Working of web services The client sends a request to the server The Request is encoded in XML format The Function (GET, POST…)is inserted in the file The server receives and decodes the file The received function is executed A new XML file is encoded and is sent back to the client. WSDL WSDL is an acronym
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