Web Services |Mar 2014

AgendaWhat is a Web Service ?Uses of Web Services Web Service protocols Web Services Description Language (WSDL) What is SOAP ?What is REST?What is more advantageous?Application DemoQ&AFeedback

What is a Web Service?

“It is a service to exchange data from different unknown systems.”

"Software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network" - W3C

Simple Object Access Protocol

What is REST?

REpresentational State Transfer Focuses on accessing named resources through a consistent

interfaceEvery resource has its representation (could be a document) and the

resource state changes when some method is applied through a request using any vocabulary

How does it work?

SOAP vs REST

Battle Contd…

References

• http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/REST/article.html