Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
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.
WS-Security. Web Services Security (WS-Security, WSS) is an extension to SOAP to apply security to Web services. It is a member of the Web service specifications and was published by OASIS. The protocol specifies how integrity and confidentiality can be enforced on messages and allows the communication of various security token formats, such as ...
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 ]
A semantic web service, like conventional web services, is the server end of a client–server system for machine-to-machine interaction via the World Wide Web.Semantic services are a component of the semantic web because they use markup which makes data machine-readable in a detailed and sophisticated way (as compared with human-readable HTML which is usually not easily "understood" by ...
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 ...
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 ...