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Web Services

By
Anand Kulkarni
[email protected]
What is a Web Service?
Web service is a standardized medium to propagate communication
between the client and server applications on the World Wide Web. A
web service is a software module that is designed to perform a certain
set of tasks.

1. The web services can be searched for over the network and can also
be invoked accordingly.

2. When invoked, the web service would be able to provide the


functionality to the client, which invokes that web service.
How Web Services work?
How Web Services work?
1) The client would invoke a series of web service calls via requests to a
server which would host the actual web service. These requests are
made through what is known as remote procedure calls(RPC).

2) The main component of a web service is the data which is


transferred between the client and the server, and that is XML. So when
applications talk to each other, they actually talk in XML. This provides a
common platform for application developed in various programming
languages to talk to each other.
How Web Services work?
3) Web services use something known as SOAP (Simple Object Access
Protocol) for sending the XML data between applications.

4) The data which is sent from the web service to the application is
called a SOAP message. The SOAP message is nothing but an XML
document. Since the document is written in XML, the client application
calling the web service can be written in any programming language.
Types of How Web Services
Client-Server communication using SOAP
What is SOAP?
1. SOAP is an XML-based protocol for accessing web services over
HTTP.

2. SOAP is known as the Simple Object Access Protocol.

3. In order to establish communication between heterogeneous


applications, we use XML. But there are no standard
specifications on use of XML across all programming languages
for data exchange. That is where SOAP comes in.
Advantages of SOAP
1. SOAP protocol is also recommended by the W3C consortium
which is the governing body for all web standards.

2. SOAP is a light-weight protocol that is used for data


interchange between applications.

3. SOAP is designed to be platform & language independent.

4. SOAP works on the HTTP protocol, which is the default


protocol used by all web applications. Hence, there is no sort
of customization which is required to run the web services
built on the SOAP protocol to work on the World Wide Web.
SOAP message building blocks
The SOAP specification defines something known as a "SOAP message"
which is what is sent to the web service and the client application.
SOAP message building blocks
SOAP message building blocks
SOAP Envelope - This is the root element in the SOAP message. It is used
to encapsulate all the details in the SOAP message.

SOAP Header element – It can contain information such as


authentication credentials & definition of complex types if applicable.

SOAP Body - It contains the actual data which needs to be sent between
the web service and the calling application.

SOAP Fault message – If SOAP response returns error then it will add
Fault message inside SOAP body.
SOAP Fault Message
WSDL (Web Service Description Language)
WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of
endpoints operating on messages.

WSDL describes operations & messages abstractly.


SOAP communication
WSDL in SOAP communication
UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery,
and Integration)
1. UDDI is a standard for describing, publishing, and discovering
the web services that are provided by a particular service
provider.

2. UDDI provides a repository on which WSDL files can be hosted.

3. Client application will have complete access to UDDI, which


acts as a database containing all the WSDL files.

4. Like a telephone directory has contact information about


persons, same way UDDI registry will have the relevant
information for the web service.
Web Service Architecture
Web Service Architecture
1. Service Provider – It creates the web service and makes it available
to client application who want to use it.

2. Service Requestor – It is the client application that needs to contact


a web service. The client application can be a .Net, Java, or any other
language based application which looks for some sort of
functionality via a web service.

3. Service Registry (Broker) – It is the application which provides


access to the UDDI.
RESTful Web Services
1. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer.

2. Restful Web Service is a lightweight, maintainable, and scalable


service that is built on the REST architecture.

3. Restful Web Service, expose API from your application in a secure,


uniform, stateless manner to the calling client.

4. The underlying protocol for REST is HTTP.


SOAP vs REST

SOAP REST
SOAP uses service interfaces to REST uses Uniform Service
expose its functionality to locators to access to the
client applications components
SOAP needs more bandwidth REST needs less bandwidth
SOAP only works with XML REST work with plain text, XML,
formats HTML and JSON
SOAP vs REST
Sr.
No. Functionality SOAP based web services REST Service

1 Create a new stock createStock() /stock [POST]


Update an existing
2 stock updateStock(stock_id) /stock/{id} [PUT]
/stock
3 Delete all stocks deleteAllStocks() [DELETE]
/stock/{id}
4 Delete a specific stock deleteStockById(stock_id) [DELETE]
5 Read all stocks getAllStocks() /stock [GET]
6 Read a specific stock getStockById(stock_id) /stock/{id} [GET]
Thank you!!!

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