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  A web 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. A web service makes software application resources available over networks using standard technologies. Because web services are based on standard interfaces, they can communicate even if they are running on different operating systems and are written in different languages. TYPES OF WEB SERVICES SOUP WEB SERVICES SOAP is the Simple Object Access Protocol, a messaging standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium and its member editors. SOAP uses an XML data format to declare its request and response messages, relying on XML Schema and other technologies to enforce the structure of its payloads. SOUP SERVICE WORKS A SOAP client formulates a request for a service. This involves creating a conforming XML document, either explicitly or us