Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Overview of Web Services

In a typical Web services scenario, a business application sends a request to a service at a given URL using SOAP over HTTP
Web services are accessible from heterogeneous environment. They are technology and vendor independent unlike other service-oriented technologies such as RMI, COM, CORBA….

Properties of Web Services.

•Web Services are accessed over the Web.
•Web Services describe themselves using an XML-based description language.
•Web Services communicate with clients (either end-user applications or other Web Services) through XML messages that are transmitted by standard Internet protocols, such as HTTP.

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