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Advantages of web services

Advantages of web services

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Advantages of web services

- Web services offer many advantages. You'll see benefits in reusability, interoperability, usability, and deployability. So let's take a look at each of these. First, web services support reusability of code. A web service is a small reusable component that can be used by multiple systems. This can allow organizations to use web services provided by third parties. This reduces their development time and delivers more powerful applications. Second, web services provide the ability for systems to communicate back and forth, and they provide language transparency. This means the service provider can write the web service in one language like PHP or Node.js then the service client can be written in a totally different language, like Python, Ruby, or Perl and they can still communicate because they speak a common language, such as XML or JSON. For example, a web service created in a .net platform can be invoked by any client application implemented in a different programming language like…

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