Overview [1]#

Web Service is a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the World Wide Web.

Web Service is used where Web technology such as HTTP, originally designed for human-to-machine communication, is utilized for machine-to-machine communication, more specifically for transferring machine readable file formats such as XML and JSON.

Web Service generally is used to describe machine-to-machine communication using HTTP.

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More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Business Process Execution Language
• GraphQL
• Interface Description Language
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
• ServiceMix
• WS-Specifications
• Web Service Definition Language
• Web Service Security Specifications
• Web Services Inspection Language
• Web Services Resource Framework