Working with Web Services |
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Web service is a software system designed to support machine to machine interaction over a network. This describes a standardized way of integrating web-based applications using XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. XML is used to tag the data, SOAP is used to transfer the data, WSDL to describe the services, and UDDI to list the services available.
Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without consuming much time. As the communication is in XML, Web services are also platform independent. For example, Java-based applications can communicate with Perl-based applications, Windows applications can communicate with UNIX applications.
Web services do not require the use of browsers or HTML. Web services are sometimes called Application Services.
Process Platform supports generation of Web services on the following models: