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Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interactions over a network. A web service is hosted remotely and can be accessed by other systems through predefined protocols. The basic building blocks of a web service are SOAP, which defines an XML message format to exchange data between systems, WSDL, which describes available web services, and UDDI, which acts as a registry of web services descriptions.

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Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interactions over a network. A web service is hosted remotely and can be accessed by other systems through predefined protocols. The basic building blocks of a web service are SOAP, which defines an XML message format to exchange data between systems, WSDL, which describes available web services, and UDDI, which acts as a registry of web services descriptions.

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W3C on Web Services: A software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine
interaction over a network
A web service is hosted remotely and can be accessed by other systems through predefined protocols
for access.
Before web services came into picture following techniques were used for this sort of communication

RPC
DCOM
CORBA
Java RMI
Socket communication
Database based communication
File writing and polling

Any application can be converted to web service. A web service is a self contained component which
can be invoked by other applications or web services. The major advantage of a web service is
reusability. Consider a banking system, A currency converter web service can be used by money
transfer system, international banking system etc. However the currency converter system does not
have an inkling of what these systems do with the currency data, this is called loose coupling which is a
basic feature of a web service. XML+HTTP are the most popular form of web service.
A web service is OS and programming language independent. A .Net web service on windows OS can
make requests to a Java Web service on Linux OS.
The basic building blocks of a web service are following XML based components

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)


UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

SOAP
SOAP is a XML based message envelop which contains all the request and response data inter
changed between two applications.
The SOAP message constructed by a SOAP Sender is sent to the SOAP Message Receiver. The
Receiver usually processes the received message and sends a response in the form of a SOAP
message back to the Sender. There may be scenarios where the Receiver might not send the
response.

Click here to read more about SOAP


WSDL (Web Services Description Language)
WSDL is a XML based component used for following purposes

Describing a web service


Discovering a web service

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)


UDDI is a repository for storing the information about the web service. This information is in form of
XML

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