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link to remove all filters. A web service is a method of
communication between two electronic devices over a network. The
W3C defines a "web service" as "a software system designed to
support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a
network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable
format (specifically Web Services Description Language WSDL).
Other systems interact with the web service in a manner
prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically
conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction
with other Web-related standards." The W3C also states, "We can
identify two major classes of web services, REST-compliant Web
services, in which the primary purpose of the service is to
manipulate XML representations of Web resource