Web Services Integration | Data Integration Web Service

⁣A web service is a machine-to-machine software system. It uses a variety of protocols to transfer data (specifically HTTP and XML).


A web service is not a Web page or application, but rather a self-contained machine-to-machine interface over the Internet that uses open standards to communicate with other systems. It is self-describing using common XML semantics and discoverable through a discovery mechanism such as UDDI.