D: Web Services Architecture

Web Service

• Instance of Service Oriented Architecture
• Software system designed to support interoperable networked machine-to-machine interaction
• Interface described in a machine-processable format (WSDL)
• Interaction through SOAP messages
• Conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization

Web Services Architecture

• Standard means of interoperating between different software applications
• Applications can run on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks
• Interoperability through the definition of compatible protocols

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