Why use Web Services?

A few years ago, Web services were not fast enough to make people interested.

The most important thing is to work together

Since all major platforms can access the web through a web browser, different platforms can interact with each other. To make these platforms work together, web applications were developed.

Web applications are simple applications that run on the Web. They are built around web browser standards and can be used by almost any browser on any platform.

Web services take Web applications to another level

By using Web services, your application can publish functionality or messages to the world.

Web services use XML to encode and decode data, and use SOAP to transmit data through open protocols.

Through Web services, your accounting department's Win 2k server can connect to your IT vendor's UNIX server.

Web services There are two types of applications

Reusable application components

There are some functions that are often used by different applications. So why develop them over and over again?

Web services can provide application components as services, such as currency conversion, weather forecasts or even language translation, etc.

Ideally, there would be only one best version of each application component so that anyone can use it in their application.

Connecting existing software

Web services help solve the problem of working together by providing a way for different applications to link their data.

By using Web services, you can exchange data between different applications and platforms.