Tuesday 1 March 2011

Web services v/s Web application

Web applications resides on the server and are meant to use by the end users. All the interactions are done through web pages, data is stored and manipulated on the servers. Web services are server-based applications which are accessed over the web, these are meant for interaction with other programs i,e they are used by the developers.

Even though the capabilities of  web applications can be accessed by the users universally, web applications d'not allow the users to add or extend their capabilities. Web services solve this problem by allowing the users to add to their capabilities using industry standard interfaces and protocols.

Using web applications companies can interact with each through capabilities, but most of the time use of web applications requires human being interacting with web applications.But web services remove this need for human interaction as the companies can interact with each other through programmatic conversations between applications. Web applications are like web sites where as web services represent the business logic.


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