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Web Services Tutorial

Web Services Tutorial

shape Description

Web services are open standard-based Web applications that communicate with other web applications with the end goal of trading information. Web Services can change over the current applications into Web applications. The following is the another definition for the web services. Web services are XML-based data trade frameworks that utilization the Internet for direct application to application collaboration. These frameworks can incorporate projects, records etc. The following is the figure to understand how web services will work.

Components of Web Services

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All the web services will work with the following components. The SOAP is a XML-based protocol to get an access for web services and it was the recommendation given by W3C to give the communication for an applications, the advantage of SOAP is that it's a platform and language independent and one more advantage is interacting with an applications which were developed in other language coding. SOAP uses WSDL. SOAP incorporates an inherent arrangement of standards for encoding information sorts. It empowers the SOAP message to show particular information sorts, for example, integers, arrays, etc. The UDDI is a distributed registry of web services, it is an open framework and platform independent, UDDI uses RMI and SOAP to communicate, UDDI also uses WSDL. UDDI also a XML based standard. The WSDL is called as wiz-dull, where SOAP and UDDI uses WSDL protocol, the definitions of WSDL are used to describe web services and it is also a XML based registry.

shape Prerequisites

Users who wants to learn web services no need to have knowledge in any particular language why because it's a concept to know how two applications will communicate to each other, if user have knowledge on XML, Protocols will be an advantage.

Summary

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  • SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol.
  • UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration.
  • WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language.
  • SOAP and UDDI will use WSDL protocol to exchange the information.