7 Manage Web Services
Web services enable applications to interact with one another over the web in a platform-neutral, language independent environment. In a typical web services scenario, a business application sends a request to a service at a given URL by using the protocol over HTTP. The service receives the request, processes it, and returns a response. Web services are typically based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or Representational State Transfer (REST) architectures. Your Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service allows implementing and calling both SOAP and RESTful style web services.