K.SANKEERTH REDDY (10RA1A0527) Web Services Web Services
Def: A Web service is a method of
communication between two electronic devices. Explanation :
The w3c defines a “web service” as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-machine over a network.
Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner
prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.
Web Service Architecture Styles of use :
Web services are a set of tools that can be
used in a number of ways.
The three most common styles of use are :
RPC SOA REST. Remote Procedure Calls : Web services in a service oriented architecture Service-Oriented Architecture Main article: Service-oriented architecture.
Web services can also be used to implement
an architecture according to service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts, where the basic unit of communication is a message, rather than an operation. This is often referred to as "message-oriented" services. Representational State Transfer CONCLUSION :
The most time in the mobile Web service
invocation is spent in the network.
Mobile Web services in general should not
break the interoperability, but for some application areas an efficient binary representation is crucial. Hence i sujest you students to make use of web services in a proper manner.