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4.9. Web Service
A web service is a way of making two applications communicate over the web. A web service consists of a set of tools to achieve this aim. There are two types of web service: REST-compliant ones, (the purpose of which is to manipulate XML representations of web resources) and arbitrary Web services (through which the service can expose any operation).

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