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About Web Services

The term Web services describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications over the Web. Web services allow businesses to communicate with each other and with other clients, without intimate knowledge of each other's IT systems. Web services share business logic, data, and processes through a Web services application programming interface (API). Application developers can then add the Web services to a software application (such as a Web page or executable program) to offer specific functionality to users.