What are web services??
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A web service is just code of some sort that may take parameters and return a response.
For example you may make a web service to return the weather based on a zipcode/postcode.
When the web service is hit with a request (for example a html form post) it returns the response (this might be xml).
So you go to ... www.mysite.com/webservice.php?code=5000
The web service is just code that will take that 5000 and calculate the weather for that area.
The W3C defines a Web service (many sources also capitalize the second word, as in Web Services) as a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.
A web service is just code of some sort that may take parameters and return a response.
For example you may make a web service to return the weather based on a zipcode/postcode.
When the web service is hit with a request (for example a html form post) it returns the response (this might be xml).
So you go to ... www.mysite.com/webservice.php?code=5000
The web service is just code that will take that 5000 and calculate the weather for that area.
The W3C defines a Web service (many sources also capitalize the second word, as in Web Services) as a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.