Outline IS400: Development of Business Applications on the Internet Fall 2004 Instructor: Dr. Boris Jukic Web Services

The term Web services describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications using the open standards over an Internet protocol backbone: applicationsopenstandardsprotocolbackbone – XML is used to tag the data,tag – SOAP is used to transfer the data, – WSDL is used for describing the services available and – UDDI is used for listing what services are available.

Web Services Used primarily as a means for businesses to communicate with each other and with clients, Web services allow organizations to communicate data without intimate knowledge of each other's IT systems behind the firewall.firewall

Web Services Unlike traditional client/server models, such as a Web server/Web page system, Web services do not provide the user with a GUI.client/serverserverGUI Web services instead share business logic, data and processes through a programmatic interface across a network. The applications interface, not the users. Developers can then add the Web service to a GUI (such as a Web page or an executable program) to offer specific functionality to users.

Web Services Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding, and because all communication is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language. For example, Java can talk with Perl, Windows applications can talk with UNIX applications.operating system programming languageJavaPerlWindowsUNIX Web services do not require the use of browsers or HTML.browsers HTML

Web Services Standards – XML – SOAP – Web Services Description Language (WSDL) – Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) – Modular programming Modularization – Less error prone and promotes software reuse

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Developed by IBM, Lotus Development Corporation, Microsoft, DevelopMentor, and Userland Software XML-based protocol Allows applications to communicate over Internet SOAP message – Envelope A structure describes a method call – Body Request – Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Response – HTTP response document contains results from other method call

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