[Ilugc] reg Web Service
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Wed Jul 26 17:35:55 2006
On 7/26/06, Venkatraman S <blizzard_venkat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what constitutes a service as a web-service , as such? I do not have much
understanding of the said concepts and would like to know more.
If a service listening on a port can receive a text string (xml or yaml or
whatever), call the method specified in the text string with the arguements
passed in that string, do some action internally (like updating a db or
reading a field) and return another text string (like indicating success or
failure of the requested operation) then it is a web service.
This service could be implemented in Java/.NET/Perl/Python/Ruby/etc but the
application using this service doesnt know nor care what it is.
The acronyms refer to what format this 'text string' should be in and
specifies the protocol for exchanging the messages.
regds
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