Chapter 1. Introduction to Web Services
Web services provide a standard means of interoperating among different software applications. Each application can run on a variety of platforms and frameworks.
Web services facilitate internal, heterogeneous subsystem communication. The interoperability increases service reuse because functions do not need to be rewritten for various environments.

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