What are the benefits of using Web Services?
Use of the Web Services architecture provides the following benefits: 1: Promotes interoperability by minimising the requirements for shared understanding The Web Service Description Language (WSDL), an XML-based interface, is the only requirement for shared understanding between a service provider and a service requester. By limiting what is absolutely required for interoperability, collaborating Web services can be truly platform and language independent. By limiting what is absolutely required, Web Services can be implemented using a large number of different underlying infrastructures. 2: Enables just-in-time integration Collaborations in Web Services are bound dynamically at runtime. A service requester describes the capabilities of the service required and can use the TradeAbility Web Service WSDL to bind/attach to those services. 3: Reduces complexity by encapsulation All components in Web Services are services. What is important is the type of behaviour a service provides, not
