4.1 WEB SERVICES
Provide a standardized alternative for dealing with Integration Problems by creating a communications environment that is Vendor independent.
Web Services refer to a set of loosely coupled Software components that exchange information with each other using standard Web Communication Standards and Languages.
Web Server facilitates information exchange in a standard way without time- consuming custom coding between two different Systems regardless of the Operating Systems or Programming Languages on which the Systems are based.
The foundation technology of Web Services is XML (Extensible Mark-up Language).