August 27, 2010, Newsletter Issue #117: What are Web Services?

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Web services are the next generation of web applications. Using standardized XML messaging these modular applications support machine-to-machine interaction over the internet. They are self-describing and self-contained units that can perform anything from a simple database request to complex business processes. Once deployed, the function of a web service is available to other web applications or web services.

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