Web Services

Question 1

What is Web Service?

Answer 1

A web service provides an interface that clients can access over the Internet.

Question 2

What is the SOAP protocol?

Answer 2

Simple Object Access Protocol:
-Synchronous/ asynchronous interactions over the internet.
-Defines how to use XML to represent content of messages.
-Defines how messages are exchanged.

Question 3

What are RESTful Web Services?

Answer 3

Representational State Transfer uses a simple minimum set of of operations, focuses on resources rather than the operations allowed on them, allows for looser coupling compared to SOAP because it removes the dependency on APIs.