About Web Services

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Web services are distributed application components that conform to standards that make them externally available. They solve the problem of integrating diverse computer applications that have been developed independently and run on a variety of software and hardware platforms.

The promise of web services architecture is to allow you to connect applications that were developed on different platforms and in different programming languages. This can only work if vendors can agree on common standards.

The following web service programming models are supported by the IDE:

Both of the latter two programming models are based on the following specifications:

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Working with Web Services
Web Service Tasks: Quick Reference
About Web Service Clients

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