About web services?

[Former Member]

Hi,

i want to know about web services....plz let me know what is web service?,where we use this......plz send related docs

Regards,

Kumar.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi kumar,

Webservices enable machines of different configurations to communicate with each other.

For example, SAP system needs to use a functionality(say a procedure executing successfully for years)present in the mainframe system.

There must be some extra code which needs to be added to the procedure in the mainframe system, so that it can understand SAP system's request.

Adding extra code to the already existing procedure may result in some exceptions. Moreover this procedure would be used by many other applications.

The solution would be to use a Web service which would convert SAP's request into a request that the mainframe can understand and vice versa.

Any system, that needs to use a webservice communicates using SOAP packets.

RFC's can be used only when the involved systems are of the same configuration.

For more information please look at these below links:

/people/kumar.prashant4/blog/2006/07/14/using-rfc-as-webservice-in-webdynpro

Thanks and Regards,

Chandu.

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[prabhu_s2]

Web Service is a method that is callable remotely across a network (such as a corporate intranet or the internet itself). We looked at an example of a corporate intranet web service was available via SOAP over HTTP.

[bhavesh_kantilal]

Search on the Internet. Something even as simple as Wikipedia wilol help you,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webservice

Regards

Bhavesh