Web Service

Web services are services that provide functions and data over the Internet.

Similar to a search engine, requests are sent by a sender, which in this case is not a person but a software program. The web service returns the results to the requesting program.

Web services are made available both internally and externally.

The operations are described using WSDL (Web Services Description Language) files. Information is exchanged using XML files.

To use a web service, you must know the URL that identifies the web service. With Intrexx, you can access web services without any programming effort and also offer your own web services.

The connection to a web service is established using SOAP, a network protocol for exchanging data, via HTTP or TCP/IP. To run web services on the Internet, you need an active Internet connection.