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Web service. A web service (WS) is either: a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or. a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, images). [citation needed] In a web ...
API testing is a type of software testing that involves testing application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security. [ 1 ] Since APIs lack a GUI, API testing is performed at the message layer. [ 2 ]
These specifications are in varying degrees of maturity and are maintained or supported by various standards bodies and entities. These specifications are the basic web services framework established by first-generation standards represented by WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. [1] Specifications may complement, overlap, and compete with each other.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clients will often use this in combination with autoscaling (a process that allows a client to use more computing in times of high application usage ...
Web application security is a branch of information security that deals specifically with the security of websites, web applications, and web services. At a high level, web application security draws on the principles of application security but applies them specifically to the internet and web systems.
Web Service Discovery is the process of finding suitable web services for a given task. [1] Publishing a web service involves creating a software artifact and making it accessible to potential consumers. Web service providers augment a service endpoint interface with an interface description using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) so ...
Standard. 2.0 Recommendation. The Web Services Description Language (WSDL / ˈwɪz dəl /) is an XML -based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. [citation needed] The acronym is also used for any specific WSDL description of a web service (also referred to as a WSDL file), which ...
A web service protocol stack typically stacks four protocols: (Service) Transport Protocol: responsible for transporting messages between network applications and includes protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, FTP, as well as the more recent Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP). (XML) Messaging Protocol: responsible for encoding messages in a ...