The development of the Web in the 1990s revolutionized organizational information exchange. Client computers could gain access to information on remote servers outside their own organizations. However, access was solely through a web browser, and direct access to the information by other programs was not practical. This meant that opportunistic connections between servers, where, for example, a program could query a number of catalogs from different suppliers, were not possible.
To get around this problem, web services were developed that allowed programs to access and update resources available on the web. Using a web service, organizations that wish to make their information accessible to other programs can do so by defining and publishing ...
Get Software Engineering, 10th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
