What Are Web Services?
Borland describes Web Services as follows:
Using the Internet and Web infrastructure as the platform, Web Services seamlessly connect applications, business processes, customers, and suppliers—anywhere in the world—with standardized language and machine-independent Internet protocols.
Distributed applications generally consist of servers and clients—servers that provide some functionality to the clients. Any distributed application might contain many servers, and those servers might themselves be clients. Web Services are a new type of server component for applications with a distributed architecture. Web Services are applications that use common Internet protocols to deliver their functionality.
Because Web Services communicate ...
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