Web Service Benefits
With all the effort it takes to learn web services and change your programming paradigm, what is the upside for making the switch? How can you get a return from your web services investment? Web services yield significant benefits for many kinds of applications. We can break these benefits into the categories outlined here.
Platform independence. Web services are platform independent and not intimately tied to proprietary hardware or operating system software. Because they rely on SOAP and SOAP is really just XML, web services can be used on any platform that supports SOAP and can be invoked from any such platform. Finally, the obstacle that has prevented heterogeneous RPC-based systems from interacting has been eliminated. ...
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