Web services
The next generation application interaction after the message queue is an open standard protocol called web services. It allows applications to communicate based on XML/SOAP/HTTP methodologies for information exchange. A simple individual application can be converted into a web application interacting with other applications using web services.
A web service can be defined as a collection of open protocols and standards for exchanging information among systems or applications. Enterprise applications developed in diverse technologies and languages and executed on different platforms can make web services a common technology to exchange information across system networks (internet/intranet), a kind of interprocess communication ...
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