Web Services Flashcards
1
Q
What is Web Service?
A
A web service provides an interface that clients can access over the Internet.
2
Q
What is the SOAP protocol?
A
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.
3
Q
What are RESTful Web Services?
A
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.
