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Tech Tutorials Web 2.0Introduction to Web Services
Author: exforsys.com Published: 16th Apr 2007 Visited: 466 times
As part of our series on Web 2.0 we turn our attention to data management. Web Services are a way to allow an enterprise to give access to their internal data in a platform agnostic way. What is unique about web services is that the requests are made across the Internet the same way you would make a request using your web browser – using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This means that an existing infrastructure can be used to set up a web service and make it instantly accessible to the world. Another significant feature of Web Services is that they use XML to communicate. This creates a generic and well-defined way of passing information. Since XML is the Extensible Markup Language, you can format your message in any way you like. XML just provides the syntax, not the semantics of your message.
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