Web Services an Emerging Technology.
Web Services an emerging technology.
INTRODUCTION In this report we shall attempt to discuss on of the emerging technology in the field of Information Technology which is Web Services. We will take into account the importance of web service, its basic framework and objective and also about the technological tools involved in the implementation and use of web services. This report also consists of a brief individual explanation of the components of web services such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, etc.
1. Web Service By an example from our day to day life, we know that different appliances work on different levels of electric current and voltage. Thus to work these different appliances we need adaptors for each appliance to be able to connect them to domestic electric current voltage. But many appliances mean as many adaptors, what if we were able to use just one adaptor for all different appliances; it will make our life so easy. Similarly Web Services serves as a common platform that standardizes the integration of all different computing systems and applications using the existing web infrastructure as a universal medium. The web Services enables machine to machine communication in form of data or messages irrespective of how diverse one application is from the other. Along with internal it also provides freedom for an application to interact beyond the corporate boundaries, thus enabling the system to converse directly with those of your suppliers, distributors and clients, i.e. Business-to-Business (B2B) integration which is necessary in these times of business dependencies but at the same time very difficult as you don’t have control beyond your own system. (Anne Thomas, 2003) Now that we understand Web services we will be able to actually put down its definition as- Technically the term Web Services can be describes as
INTRODUCTION In this report we shall attempt to discuss on of the emerging technology in the field of Information Technology which is Web Services. We will take into account the importance of web service, its basic framework and objective and also about the technological tools involved in the implementation and use of web services. This report also consists of a brief individual explanation of the components of web services such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, etc.
1. Web Service By an example from our day to day life, we know that different appliances work on different levels of electric current and voltage. Thus to work these different appliances we need adaptors for each appliance to be able to connect them to domestic electric current voltage. But many appliances mean as many adaptors, what if we were able to use just one adaptor for all different appliances; it will make our life so easy. Similarly Web Services serves as a common platform that standardizes the integration of all different computing systems and applications using the existing web infrastructure as a universal medium. The web Services enables machine to machine communication in form of data or messages irrespective of how diverse one application is from the other. Along with internal it also provides freedom for an application to interact beyond the corporate boundaries, thus enabling the system to converse directly with those of your suppliers, distributors and clients, i.e. Business-to-Business (B2B) integration which is necessary in these times of business dependencies but at the same time very difficult as you don’t have control beyond your own system. (Anne Thomas, 2003) Now that we understand Web services we will be able to actually put down its definition as- Technically the term Web Services can be describes as