What is a Web Service?

A web service is a software component that exposes itself through the open communication channels of the Internet. Applications running on remote machines, on potentially different platforms, can access these components in a language and platform-independent manner.
A Web Service is a group of functions, packaged together for use in a common framework throughout a network.

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Jan 13th, 2006

A web service is a component which runs on a server and supports clients to be connected using open protocols like HTTP and SMTP.
It uses SOAP for wrapping its objects to travel on the network.
It exposes itself via UDDI. Users can search for a web service using UDDI.
A web service is described using WSDL.

Srinivas

Nov 14th, 2006

WebSevice is a reusable software component (ClassLibraries) which exposes the businesslogic in them, platform independent, technology independent, language on which it is created, can be transported on HTTP (which is stateless) and provides the xml (Universal Accepted language which can be passed through firewalls) by exposing thruough SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages between the Caller and the component..