Introduction to Web Services

Web Services enable your application to become a web application.

Web Services publish, find, and use over the Web.

Basic knowledge you should have

Before continuing to study, you need to have a basic understanding of the following knowledge:

• HTML

• XML

If you would like to learn these projects first, please visit these tutorials on our home page.

What are Web Services?

• Web Services are application components

• Web Services communicate using open protocols

• Web Services are self-contained and self-describing

• Web Services can be discovered using UDDI

• Web Services can be used by other Applications using

• XML is the basis of Web Services

How does it work?

The basic Web Services platform is XML + HTTP.

HTTP protocol is the most commonly used Internet protocol.

XML provides a language that can be used across different platforms and programming languages.

Elements of the Web services platform:

• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

• UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)

• WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

We will cover these topics later in this tutorial.