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Industry essay: What are Web Services? Web services have been hyped over the past year to be the most innovative improvement that has come to the Internet. It has been adopted by many companies, and has reached the forefront of applications development. So what is all the hype about? Web services can be described as an application that can be deployed or called over the Internet that allows applications to communicate with each other- regardless of the language in which they are written or which systems platform and operating system is being used. Each service is a discrete unit of code, and performs a small set of given tasks. Typically, web services make use of standard web protocols to perform its tasks- it usually follows an order: 1) find the web service requested, 2) determine how the web service is called once it is found, and 3) call the program or service...

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