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web service
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service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the World Wide Web
A web service is a tool that allows one computer or device to automatically request information or perform tasks from another computer over the internet, without needing a person to manually operate it. This matters because it lets different software systems and devices work together seamlessly in the background, making many modern conveniences—like checking your bank account on your phone or getting real-time weather updates—possible.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software category
- Subclass of
- service
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- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10003304
- topic's main category
- Category:Web services
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/web-services
- Commons category
- Web services
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Encyclopedic overview
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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “web service” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.