November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
16h 2m
English
Web services represent a new architectural paradigm for applications. Web services implement capabilities that are available to other applications (or even other Web services) via industry standard network and application interfaces and protocols. An application can use the capabilities of a Web service by simply invoking it across a network without having to integrate it. As such, Web services represent reusable software building blocks that are URL addressable. The architectural differences between monolithic, integrated applications and Web services-based applications are depicted in Figure 1-1.
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