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Simple object access protocol services; Representational state transfer services; Service-oriented architecture building blocks
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Self-contained and modular web applications that interact with and exchange information with other applications, and can be invoked over the network using a standardized internet-based communication interface.
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Web services were designed to offer interoperability among diverse and heterogeneous applications, and represent the first interoperability initiative backed by both Microsoft .NET and Java EE development communities. The term “web service” typically refers to services that follow the W3C-defined simple object access protocol (SOAP) and web service description language (WSDL) standards. However, broadly speaking, web services stand for any modular independent software components accessed over the network in a platform and language-neutral way. Representational state transfer (REST) is another type of service that relies on...
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Zaslavsky, I. (2008). Web Services. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1489
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