subject: Web services are typically an application programming interfaces and transport protocols to exchange data with clients [print this page] Web services are typically an application programming interfaces and transport protocols to exchange data with clients
As stated by the World Wide Web Consortium, Web services provide a standard means of communication interoperability between applications developed on different platforms with different frames. Types of Web services allow the client and server to interact with each other on the Internet with the help of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol or HTTP and XML. Web services provide a comprehensive list of procedures or methods that can be used in synchronization with the application developed without taking into account the language of the OS, hardware or programming. Any application can use these web services and therefore work is called Web APIs or Web methods.
