What is Web Services? | Type Of Web Services | Component Of Web Services

What is Web Services?

• Web Services is client server application or application component which help, to establish communication between two devices over the network.
• It is a software system for inter operable machine to machine communication.
• It is collection of protocols foe exchanging information between two devices or application.

Type of Web Services

There are mainly Two types of Web Services.

1. SOAP
2. RESTful

Components of Web Services
There are Three types of web services.

1. SOAP
2. WSDL
3. UDDI

SOAP

• Soap stands for:- Simple Object Access Protocol.
• It is a XML based protocol foe accessing web services.
• It is XML based, so it is platform independent and language independent.
• It can used with JAVA,.NET and PHP language on any plateform

WSDL

• WSDL[Pronounced as:- wix-dull]:- Web Services Description Language.
• It is a XML document contaning information about web services such as method name,parameter and how to access these.
• It is a part of UDDI.
• It acts as a interface between Web Services applications.

UDDI

• UDDI | Universal description,Discovery and Integration.
• It is XML based framework for describing with web Services.