Defining Web Services

Most commonly used definition:

• Web Services are

  • described in WSDL
  • exchange SOAP messages
  • use HTTP as transport
  • optionally, registered in UDDI registry

• Interaction can happen using RPC style or Document Exchange style, synchronously or asynchronously

• Knowledge of Implementation language or deployment platform is not required for interaction.

• Web Services promise Interoperability.

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Interoperability => Ability of a program running within one environment ( programming language, h/w platform, OS, …) to communicate, by invoking method calls or exchanging messages, to programs running within another environment.

Portability => Ability of a program to run within different environments.