Web Services

Web Services are those services that gives a path to communicate or we can say avail and provide facilities from which we can communicate with service provider or between application etc in required manner, that allows to communicate data and can convert applications into Web-applications, basically these are application components that can communicate using some protocols.

Web services are self describing and can provide services without using browser or html, whole data and respective applications are runs on server and dealing with client or software or application in terms of request .Web services are discovered using UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration).

Web services can be used by other applications, operating system, over web applications for avail or provide services or we can say facilities according to pre-configured manner as required where XML is the basis for Web services and the basic Web services platform is XML + HTTP. Where XML provides a language which can be used between different platforms and programming languages and deals with messages and functions.

There are three main elements of web services are :

• UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
• WSDL (Web Services Description Language)
• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)