What is Web Services

Piece of software that use a set of protocols to interchange data between applications.

This refers to a distributed computing model that allows application-to-application communication. This also allows developers to add web services to their applications much more easily. Web services do not provide GUIs, instead these shares business logic, data, and process through a programmatic interface across a network thus establishing distributed computation.

A set of technologies, mostly based on XML, that allows inter-process communication among machines located on the Web.

Software systems that are able to provide means for interaction and communication of applications via a computer network.

Web services are a set of protocols named Web services description language (WSDL), uniform description, discovery and integration (UDDI) and simple object access protocol (SOAP) used to exchange data between applications regardless of their platform, language or object model. In this interaction, there are three actors, 1. A service provider defines with the WSDL language the format for request and response of services it generates 2. A UDDI registry stores the services descriptions published by the service provider 3. A service consumer in need can make a request and find a particular service description in the UDDI registry. It subsequently calls this service through the SOAP protocol and requires it to perform some action at the provider’s location and send back the result. Current examples Web services are weather information service, authentication service, Foreign exchange service and Knowledge base service.

Services implemented in Application Servers.

Software paradigm enabling peer-to-peer computation in distributed environments based on the concept of “service” as an autonomous piece of code published in the network.

A software system designed to support interoperable machine to machine interaction over a network through the use of common standards.

A set of specifications that allows a functionality to be deployed over the internet or intranet so that it is accessible in an interoperable manner

Web Services is originally defined by W3C “a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine (system-to-system) interaction over a network”. Web2.0 is based on the technology of Web Services.

considered as the most efficient and reliable communicators of messages from one place to another regardless of geographical or technological heterogeneity

It is the technology that uses a series of protocols and standards to exchange data between applications.

The Web services technology refers to the set of standards that enable automated machine-to-machine interactions over the Web. The core standards include XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.

Software system designed to support interoperable machine to machine interaction over web. It uses SOAP protocol and XML messages to receive request and offer responses.

Electronic services enabled by the Web services technology. The Web services technology refers to the set of standards that enable automated machine-to-machine interactions over the Web. The core standards include XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.

Are automated resources accessed via the Internet.

Services that are made available by developers (OR industry?) for Web users or other Web-connected programs.

The provision of communication, media production, distribution and other applications on the web, access through a browser, without the requirement for users to install software on their own computer. Examples would include Google Docs™ or Flickr™.

considered as the most efficient and reliable communicators of messages from one place to another regardless of geographical or technological heterogeneity

A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other businesses, developers, and programs, through open protocols, languages, and APIs, including XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.

A Web service is a platform-independent and self-contained software with defined functionality that can be available over the Internet. It provides a standard way of integrating mechanisms with enterprise applications over the net. A Web service can perform one or more functionalities for the complex application system.

Software services designed to support interoperable XML based machine-to-machine interaction over the Internet.

Access to data or services between devices through the internet.

The W3C definition of a Web service is “a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in WSDL. Other systems interact with the Web services using SOAP messaging defined in the WSDL specification.”

Enterprise applications that exchange data, share tasks, and automate processes over the Internet.

Technologies that allow easy integration of applications over the Internet or Internet protocol-based networks.

are descriptions of services that are requested by service requesters, provided by service providers, and agreed between service providers and requestors.

Software paradigm enabling peer-to-peer computation in distributed environments based on the concept of “service” as an autonomous piece of code published in the network.

A software system that provides set of standards to support communication and coordination among services over a network, such as Internet, to achieve their goals.

Considered as the most efficient and reliable communicators of messages from one place to another regardless of geographical or technological heterogeneity.

A software system that provides set of standards to support communication and coordination among services over a network, such as Internet, to achieve their goals.

Software paradigm enabling peerto- peer computation in distributed environments based on the concept of “service” as an autonomous piece of code published in the network.

Modular, independent, selfdescriptive programs that are designed to guarantee interoperability among systems that are developed with different technologies and that interact in a computer network. Typically, Web services are described by using the WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and they use SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) for message exchange.

A modular Internet-based business functions that perform specific business tasks to facilitate business interactions within and beyond the organization.

A web service is any bit of programming that makes it accessible over the web and uses an existing XML informing framework. Its main goal is interoperability between enterprises.

Software paradigm enabling peer-to-peer computation in distributed environments based on the concept of “service” as an autonomous piece of code published in the network.

The Web services technology refers to the set of standards that enable automated machine-to-machine interactions over the Web. The core standards include XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.

The software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. They allow heterogeneous systems to communicate and to expose their operations. They can also be used to implement reusable application-components, such as currency conversion, weather reports, and others.

Defined by W3C as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently just application programming interfaces (API) that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.

any web server providing a useful benefit is classifiable as a web service, but the term largely implies web servers intended for constant external use, typically by exposing an API that allows external code bases to connect to the web service using some de facto standard of communication such as XML or JSON

These refer to a distributed computing model that allows application-to-application communication. This also allows developers to add web services to existing applications much more easily. Web services do not provide GUIs, instead these share business logic, data, and process through a programmatic interface across a network thus establishing distributed computation.

General speaking, web services are all the services available on the Web or the Internet from a business perspective. The first web services were information sources (Schneider, 2003). From a technological perspective, web services are Internet-based application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols. Web services is an important application field of service intelligence and service computing.

A web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized XML messaging system.

The W3C defines a Web Service as a software system supporting machine-to-machine interaction over a network. A Web Service is characterized by an interoperable interface, described in WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and communicates using the message-based SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) protocol.

Refers to technologies for describing services as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages in the web, and support service definitions that provide documentation for distributed systems and serve as a recipe for automating the details involved in applications communications.

Software applications from which interfaces and bindings are expressed in XML and that can be discovered using XML messages. In the W3C definition, Web services are “a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.”

Are business process interfaces. Each web service is a point of interaction to either give inputs/receive outputs from a business process. The web server provides the web service. They run in the background and wait for clients to connect to them. Basically it frees the programmer of writing code for the web service. They are URL addressable and can be invoked by any browser by just typing the path to the web service. Web services use HTTP protocol to communicate with clients. The open and common standards used by Web Services ensure that any kind of application can interact with a web service.

Electronic services enabled by the Web services technology. The Web services technology refers to the set of standards that enable automated machine-to-machine interactions over the Web. The core standards include XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.

Method of data exchange and functional interfacing between software modules located on the Web, based on the sharing of protocols for the signalling of the functional features of each module, for their research and remote use, and for the management of incoming and outgoing data flows from the modules.

Web Services technology is one of the most important foundations for ASP new-game strategies. Thus, by accelerating the pace of Web services in the industry, a competitor with good capability in the technology reinforces its own competitive position.

Modular business services with each module fully implemented in software and delivered over the Internet. The modules can be combined, can come from any source, and can eventually be acquired dynamically and without human intervention when needed.

An XML based standard middleware technology for developing interoperable service-oriented distributed systems.

Web services are distributed information systems, which can be seen as an evolution of conventional distributed systems, such as middleware and workflow systems. According to W3C a Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. In the traditional sense a Web service is a software system identified by a URI, whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These systems may then interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its definition, using XML based messages conveyed by Internet protocols.

A set of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with each other using standard Web communication protocols and languages, a technology that allows applications to communicate with each other in a platform- and programming language-independent manner.

An XML based standard middleware technology for developing interoperable service-oriented distributed systems.

A web service is a software system identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML–based messages conveyed by Internet protocols.

Are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and dynamically invoked across the Web.