5
Web Services
Traditionally, web services, or “big web services”—to distinguish them from other services running on the web using different paradigms, such as stateless Representational State Transfer (REST) interfaces—have been popular with the traditional enterprises. A web service is a resource provided by a particular provider described in terms of its allowed operations in a common language, that is, the Web Service Description Language (WSDL). Knowing the WSDL description, a client (consumer) can invoke each operation by sending a request contained in a particularly formatted body. After the execution, a response is returned.
Other than describing the web service, a WSDL description contains information on the particular transport ...
Get Identification and Management of Distributed Data now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
