Web Services
Web services are web-based application that translates your application into browser-based application using XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has defined it as a software system designed to communicate machine to machine over a network without time-consuming custom coding. These applications usually allow organizations to communicate data without interfering in one another?s system.
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