Web service

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Web services is a broad term encompassing a variety of ways of obtaining information over the internet. Since Microsoft's .NET platform became available in 2002, the term has been used predominantly to refer to two distinct methods by which computer programs can request information from remote computers. These methods are Web services with SOAP and Web services with REST.