Web Services

Abstract

Web services have been defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as “a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.” The W3C is an international consortium that develops protocols and guidelines for the Web. It also establishes the mark-up validity of web documents in HTML, XHTML, and other mark-up languages to make sure that they conform to the rules. Web services utilize Web 2.0, the most recent generation of the Web.