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Originally Posted by lennonrowen

Web Services are self-contained, modular, distributed, dynamic applications that can be described, published, located, or invoked over the network to create products, processes, and supply chains. These applications can be local, distributed, or Web-based. Web services are built on top of open standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, Java, HTML, and XML.

Web services Also refers application services , Allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other .Web services do not require the use of browsers or HTML.