A web service is a web application or component which communicates with other applications using open protocols like HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). [...]
XML along with HTTP forms the basis of web services. XML provides a language which can be used between different platforms and programming languages and still express complex messages and [...]
Web services can be implemented in various ways. Web services can be classified as “Big” web services and “RESTful” web services. Big web services Big web services are based on SOAP standard and [...]