1. Web Services Brenton Lovett Wizard Information Services

2. 2 Agenda  What is a Web Service?  Web Services Technology  Web Service Examples  Google  Amazon  UPS  MAVIS Web Services

3. 3 What is a Web Service?  An application that provides a Web API.  Web API exposes the functionality of an application to other applications using XML and the Web.  Web API relies on Web services technology to manage communications between heterogeneos applications.  Web services technology is pervasive, vendor-independent, language-neutral, and very low-cost.

4. 4 Web Services Technology  HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol  XML – eXtensible Markup Language  SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol  WSDL - Web Services Description Language  UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration

5. 5 Google Web Services  The Google Web API allows an application to query the Google search engine directly rather than through a browser.  Search results are returned as structured XML data so that the requesting application can process the information.

6. 6 Amazon Web Services  The Amazon Web API allows Amazon’s online catalog to be accessed from an application, so that marketing affiliates can sell Amazon products from their own web sites in conjunction with their own products.  Affiliate Web sites use Amazon’s Web API to search Amazon’s catalog and display the results on their own sites, including features such as Amazon reviews and book ratings as well as price and availability.

7. 7 UPS Web Services  The UPS Web API allows businesses to connect their applications directly to the UPS logistics system to add integrated shipping, tracking and related functionality.

8. 8 MAVIS Web Services External System MAVIS Web API HTTP SOAP (XML) A few examples: Harvest records from other databases and import them into MAVIS Synchronize MAVIS records with corresponding records in other databases Access MAVIS records through your own web application

9. Web Services Integrate your applications seamlessly with MAVIS!