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What is a Web Service?
Software applications written in various programming languages and running on
various machine platforms can use Web Services to easily exchange data over
computer networks like the Internet. A Web Service is an application that uses
open standards for exchanging data between applications or systems.
Sending your data to the Web Service to be validated, verified, cleansed,
standardized, and appended with additional information is the next step in the
process. Once the web Service performed the processing request, the data is then
returned to you in the same format in which it was sent
Real-Time communication between your Web Services provider and your systems is
independent of the programming language or operating system you use. This is
made possible by most web Services by using two open standards that are platform
independent and vendor neutral, SOAP and XML:
• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based
messages over a computer network.
• XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common
information formats and share both the format and the data on the Internet,
intranets, and elsewhere.
The overview of the process is as follows: The data to be validated is formatted
in XML and sent to the Web Service over the Internet using SOAP. The request is
processed, and an XML response is created and returned to you in a SOAP object.
Next Step: Advantages of using a Web Service
Learn more about Data
Quality Web Services.
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